Sankar Sridhar developed a head for heights early in life while climbing stairs, first to peddle pagers and then trousers, as a teenager in Calcutta. The regular exercise — skipping lunch, mounting steps and dashing down to outrun irate housewives — stood him in good stead when he finally swapped concrete staircases for the icy Himalayas.
        After a few years of trekking and guiding tourists on trails in Sikkim, Darjeeling and Kashmir, Sridhar, by then 20, enrolled on a mountaineering course and proceeded to earn his keep as an outdoor survival instructor in a Delhi-based adventure company.
        Whether it was the effect of breathing rarified air for extended periods or just a stroke of genius he will never know, but, one fine day, Sridhar, tapped his fingers on the keyboard instead of feeling rockfaces for holds and, in the process, found himself a toehold in journalism. His articles have appeared in Le Courrier France and Le Courrier International Japon, Geo Magazine, Financial Times, The Telegraph, The Statesman, The Times of India, DNA, India Today Travel Plus, Outlook Traveller, Swagat and DiscoverIndia. Photography, which he took up much later to document cultures alien to his city-bred sensibilities, has led to a body of work that has been exhibited, published and awarded in national and international salons and contests. His Chasing Nyima, a work of non-fiction, has found a distinctive place in Penguin’s third edition of First Proof, an anthology of New Indian Writing.
        An accountant by training, an editor by profession and a photojournalist by calling, Sridhar divides his time between scouting the back of beyond to document societies, lives and cultures, and thinking what role life will throw at him next.

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