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Madhaviah Krishnan was born on 30 June, 1912 in India, is an Indian wildlife photographer. Discover Madhaviah Krishnan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

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1898

His father's writings included one of the first realistic Tamil novels, Padmavathi Charithram published in 1898 and an English novel Thillai Govindan published in 1916.

His father voluntarily retired from Government service and started a press from which he published a Tamil magazine called Panchamritam.

1912

Madhaviah Krishnan (30 June 1912 – 18 February 1996), better known as M. Krishnan, was a pioneering Indian wildlife photographer, writer and naturalist.

M. Krishnan was born in Tirunelveli on 30 June 1912 and was the youngest of eight siblings.

His father was a Tamil writer and reformer A. Madhaviah who worked with the Salt and Abkari Department of the Government of Madras.

1925

When his father died in 1925, he was taken care of by his eldest sister, Lakshmi.

Krishnan studied in the Hindu High School and developed an interest in literature, art and nature.

His family lived in Mylapore, and in those days it was covered in shrub and teemed with bird life, jackals and blackbucks.

Krishnan even had a pet mongoose.

1927

In 1927 Krishnan joined the Presidency College and graduated with a BA in 1931.

He also took a keen interest in botany, taught by Professor P. F. Fyson.

He accompanied Fyson on field trips to the Nilgiris and the Kodaikanal hills and also acquired watercolour painting techniques from Professor Fyson's wife.

Krishnan did not do well in his education and jobs were not easy.

One of his older brother's who was married to the daughter of Sir T. Vijayaraghavacharya of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute at Pusa, took Krishnan to his father-in-law for advice.

Krishnan was told that unless he managed to do well in studies, he could not be helped.

For a while he made a living by writing to small magazines and publishing some of his drawings and caricatures.

He initially wrote in several Tamil magazines.

1942

In 1942, he was offered employment by the Maharaja of Sandur near Bellary in Karnataka.

Krishnan took up this position and the works he undertook included being a schoolteacher, judge, publicity officer and a political secretary to the Maharaja.

He spent a lot of his time wandering in the wilderness, observing nature, tried grazing sheep, breeding pigeons to work in a pigeon postal system and writing.

His essays on wildlife photography were published in The Illustrated Weekly of India in a series entitled Wildlife Photographers Diary.

He also wrote in The Hindu by the pen-name of Z.

In the Sunday Statesman he wrote under his own name.

1949

In 1949, Sandur was unified in the Indian republic.

1950

From 1950 he wrote a bi-weekly column in The Statesman of Calcutta called 'Country Notebook'.

In this column he wrote about various aspects of natural history.

1972

It has been noted that in 1972, Krishnan foresaw the possibility that elephants could communicate using sounds that were inaudible to the human ear.

This infrasound communication was confirmed by later studies by Katherine Payne.

Along with his whimsical prose, poetry and drawing he used photography as another tool for expression.

He worked only with black and white film.

His equipment was, according to naturalist E. P. Gee, 'a large, composite affair, with the body of one make and a tele lens of another, and other parts and accessories all ingeniously mounted together by himself.

I cannot swear that I saw proverbial bootlace used to fix them all together, but I am sure there must have been some wire and hoop somewhere!' He called his equipment the Super Ponderosa.

Krishnan was a not a big fan of technological advances and was unimpressed by the display of India's first jet aircraft.

1996

This column continued for 46 years, from 1950 to 18 February 1996, the day he died.

Krishnan was an ecological patriot in that he opposed the introduction of exotic trees.

He was once asked to speak at the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore and in late February, the Tabebuia trees were ablaze in flowers.

Asked about his opinion on the flowers, he declared it as 'Disgraceful' and suggested that ''...

you should uproot all those foreign trees, and plant some of our own.''

Krishnan was responsible for the declaration of Vedanthangal as a bird sanctuary.

He was aware that he was different from most conservationists of his time – who were either European or were from the Indian aristocracy of Muslims and Rajputs often former hunters – in being a vegetarian.