THE WEIGHT OF GRACE

Rajesh Bedi's Elephant: The Divine Mystery is a luminous ode to the elephant and to a lifetime spent in reverent pursuit of the wild

- Bandeep Singh

Baba Bohrd’—a Punjabi term for a sprawling banyan tree and an undisputed master—befits Rajesh Bedi perfectly.

Gaunt, gentle and stoic, with eyes that observe more than they see and a beard with its own quiet antiquity, Bedi stands as India’s most revered chronicler of the wild. Through his lens, the country’s wilderness has found its visual mythology.

Along with his brother Naresh Bedi, he pioneered wildlife photography and filmmaking in India at a time when the field was still an uncharted frontier. For Bedi, photography was never mere documentation—it was discovery, born of patience, intuition, and a deep study of animal behaviour.

His seventh book,