About Nature Safari India

Sharad was born and reared in New Delhi, and from a young age, he had the ambition to represent India in international cricket competition. He competed in a variety of outdoor activities and excelled in each one that he tried his hand at. However, due to a number of personal considerations, he was forced to give up sports and instead decided to pursue a career in hotel management during a time when the majority of his peers were preparing for admission exams in the fields of engineering and medicine. He was given the chance to work for the Taj Group of Hotels, which is recognised as Asia’s preeminent hotel company (a TATA Group Enterprise). He had just been working for the Taj Group for a single year when he was already recognised as Employee of the Year and received numerous accolades.

His “Super Boss” was the renowned author Mr. Divya Bhanu Sinh Chavda, who had written a number of books on Indian wildlife and was known as a wildlife expert. As a result of the several encounters he had with Mr. Chavda, Sharad embarked on a journey into the forest and visited a number of national parks over the course of the following few years.

In the year 1990, when he was 22 years old and had just seen his first tiger, he had no idea that this single experience would propel him into a world where forests were the only thing that mattered. Between the years 1990 and 1999, Sharad traversed the length and breadth of India, making stops in the national parks of Bandhavgarh, Kanha, Corbett, Dudhwa, Kanha, Bharatpur, and Sariska.

He left the hotel industry with a renewed sense of mission and went on to establish his own business, which he named “Nature Safari India Pvt Ltd.” His company operates under the motto “Conservation via Tourism.” As he travelled further and further, he developed his skills as a wildlife photographer and made significant improvements. In 2014, he captured on tape a remarkable event in natural history, which occurred when a tiger was about to attack the calf of an elephant. This photograph was favourably appreciated in a variety of countries.

Since the hotel industry was in his family, he decided to open his own boutique wildlife resort in Kanha National Park from the ground up. After operating the resort for ten years, he decided to sell it so that he could concentrate on his animal travels.

It was in early 2020 that the pandemic struck, and as he had learnt that never waste a crisis. So he started to pen down his observation of the tiger for three decades which had never been thought of before. Sharad published “The Tiger CEO” to combine his enthusiasm for animals and imparting practical management skills. “The tiger is an enigma that intrigues us all,” he explains. There are numerous coffee-table books on tigers written by a variety of experts, but I was compelled to write down my own observations and interpretations of essential tiger characteristics that make the feline not only an ultimate predator but also an exemplary leader.