by Karthik Davey | Oct 27, 2017 | Karthik's Blog
23rd October is a special day for me. We celebrate Shaka turning a year older. This year he would have turned 9 in dogs’ years and 63 if he had been human. This is a letter to him knowing well he couldn’t have read the type and only saw it in my eyes and today when...
by Karthik Davey | May 2, 2017 | Karthik's Blog
Friends of Dhole’s Den, Since 8 years and more you have turned and many have even wondered before they were our guests at our homestay about the fact that our signboards said: The Land of Shaka & Zulu.. Those who stayed with us met him Shaka the King of...
by Karthik Davey | Feb 13, 2017 | Karthik's Blog
For two weeks now my world is a room in our townhouse in Mysore. After a fall caused by a fit of anger that rose unnecessarily from the shallowness of an instant in which an employee stood there for whatever reason, unwilling to perform with 100%, I had just wanted to...
by Karthik Davey | Oct 23, 2015 | Karthik's Blog
An Excerpt from: A King called Shaka… The next day started early. The car to take me and my business partner Gokul to Bandipur arrived early and we drove away towards our new home. Enroute on the highway it was quite uneventful except for the looks that...
by Karthik Davey | Oct 21, 2014 | Life at Dhole's Den
To Shaka on his 6th Birthday… It was October 2009 and I was back from my last trip to India where in the jungles of Bandipur a new safari lodge of a different kind was taking shape. Get yourself a hound my consultant and organic farmer Raju had mentioned to me...