India, May 25 -- "To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower", are lines from the English poet and painter, William Blake, that have aged well. To embark on a variation on Blake's theme, it could be said that one, who can find 'beauty in a sweet, little lizzie', is possessed of a blessed soul.

Principal of the SBK Government PG College, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, and professor of Zoology, Shyam Sunder Meena, lives at the rolling edge of the Thar desert. Meena's boundless empathy for the forgotten, and often despised as "ugly, poisonous, dangerous" creatures, is stirring. His sensitivity mists the eye because he can literally feel a lizzie's sigh. His camera rolls are dominated not by tigers, leopards and King cobras but ...