He was a star employee at Yahoo. Won a global award. Led cryptography for one of the world’s biggest web portals. And could identify exactly 3 birds. Then he quit everything, packed his bags, and walked into the forests of BR Hills. Twenty years later, Kalyan Varma has made films with some of the biggest names in the industry, won the National Film Award, been Emmy-nominated, and shot for BBC, Netflix, and National Geographic. In this episode, we sit down with him for an informal and honest conversation about the leap of faith that nobody understood. From ethical hacking and cyber security to elephants, tigers, documentaries, and conservation, this episode travels through two decades of stories from the wild — including the making of Wild Karnataka, Project Tiger, Wild Tamil Nadu, the ethics of wildlife filmmaking, AI in cinema, and some unfor ...