Credit: Photo by Sandesh Kadur c/o Straz Center

Bengal tigers, great hornbills, Asian elephants, King Cobras and the Indian rhinoceros are some of India’s most famous animals, but they don’t dominate the work of photographer and filmmaker Sandesh Kadur.

The 48-year-old member of the National Geographic Society board of trustees is known for his dramatic landscape captures of his country mountains, plans and jungles, plus his shots of Pallas’s cat (aka the manul), a tiny, grumpy-faced fishing feline whose story he hopes to bring to this talk
about wild cats (like the snow leopard pictured).

Sandesh Kadur, who appears at David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa, Florida on Jan. 16, 2025. Credit: Photo c/o Straz Center

The show is the second installment of the Straz Center’s National Geographic Live series, which wraps in April with shark scientist Jess Cramp.

Tickets to Sandesh Kadur: Wild Cats Revealed. happening next Thursday, Jan 16 at Tampa’s David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts are still available and start at $25.

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This article appears in Jan 2-8, 2025.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...