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A fitting tribute to a `wild man'

Lakshmi B. Ghosh

NEW DELHI: He started his career with nothing more than a passion for nature. And while three decades after he first started out with a small office in the Capital the funds are still hard to find and a broadcaster even more so, as one of the doyens of India's documentary movement in the field of environment, Naresh Bedi is a man still on a mission.

Not surprising then that the Centre for Media Studies decided to award the veteran with the Prithvi Ratna Award at the ongoing Vatavaran Environment and Wildlife Film Festival here.

Instituted by CMS in association with the United Nations Environment Programme, the award will be presented to Bedi for his outstanding contribution to environment and wildlife filmmaking.

The winner of the Green Oscar for best wildlife cameraman at the International Wildlife and Television Festival, Wildscreen, in 1984, Bedi's works were one of the first by an Asian to get such recognition. Apart from winning the silver medal at the International Film and Television Festival of New York in 1985 for his film "The Ganges Gharial" to two of his films on tigers winning getting nominated to the British Academy Award in 1987, Bedi's works continue to inspire many.

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