In today’s day and age, most of us have a huge disconnect with ourselves, and with nature. To find a connect that keeps life a little real, it’s important to spend time with yourself. Being out in nature gives you the opportunity to do that with complete honesty. It lets you introspect about who you are, what you strive for, and what your life is becoming. These are powerful things that every human being should seek,” says food-travel show host and passionate outdoorsman Rocky Singh. 

As a child in Delhi of the 1970s, Singh remembers his South Extension home surrounded by a scrub forest frequently visited in the rains by frogs, butterflies, snakes and monitor lizards. “Even wild boar and jackals lived around us.” Regular fishing and camping with family since he was five, he says, helped forge a lasting connection to the natural world. “In the summer, we’d go up to the hills, or down to Rajasthan in the winters. I have great memories of the outdoors, looking at the stars, observing how the winds change direction, and observing the habit of animals,” says Singh, who will be at the National Chambal Sanctuary soon to watch crocodiles, gharials and the Indian skimmer that nests there around this time.