The untold story of Ullas Karanth, the man who spent a life saving India's tigers

What makes someone give up a comfortable engineering career, and move closer to the jungle? For K Ullas Karanth, the answer was simple: the wild was calling.

On Some Like It Wild's The Untold Story of Dr Ullas Karanth: A Life Dedicated to Saving India's Tigers, we meet the legendary conservation biologist whose work changed how India understands its tigers - and hear the extraordinary personal story behind the science.

Karanth takes us back to the 1960s-70s, when forests were battered by hunting and seeing a tiger in the wild was an event, not an expectation. He recalls an article by conservationist George Schaller that altered the course of his life, the mentors he found along the way, and his journey to the US to pursue a PhD at a time when wildlife science barely existed as a career in India.


There are stories from Nagarhole, encounters with the wild, and a candid account of what it meant to pursue a passion when there was no obvious path to follow. This is more than a story about tigers. It's about curiosity, obsession and courage. And what can happen when you choose the jungle over the conventional road.