14 Facts About Kalyan Varma

Kalyan Varma is a Emmy nominated wildlife filmmaker, photographer and conservationist.

Kalyan Varma is one of the founders of Peepli Project, co-director of Nature InFocus nature and wildlife festival, and founding member of India Nature Watch.

Kalyan Varma is a recipient of the 67th National film award in 2021 for his film Wild Karnataka and Carl Zeiss Wildlife Conservation Award.

Kalyan Varma was part of the team which distributed linux operating system free to people across India.

Kalyan Varma was one of the core members of the annual conference FOSS.

Kalyan Varma headed the application security division of Yahoo, where he would oversee the use of cryptography and secure web application across the web portal.

Kalyan Varma won the superstar award in Yahoo, given to ten employees globally each year.

Kalyan Varma worked in Biligiriranga Hills for more than a year before he took up full time wildlife photography and filmmaking as a profession.

Kalyan Varma is involved in fostering community among photographers and wildlife conservationists since his early years.

Kalyan Varma undertook a year long project to document human-elephant conflict in Karnataka and the relationship that shepherds share with arid regions of India.

Kalyan Varma is one of the co-founders of Nature InFocus, an annual festival, portal, contest and a documentary production company which is one of the largest in the world, focussed on nature photography and conservation.

Kalyan Varma is best known for directing and producing the film Wild Karnataka which was the first nature film to be released in Cinema in India.

Kalyan Varma has in the last decade dedicated himself to make wildlife documentaries.

Kalyan Varma has made various wildlife documentaries for the BBC and National Geographic Channel.