India, April 19 -- When photographing birds, it is best to be a detached observer of the cosmic dance of life and death. For, being eats being: the hawk the little bird, the little bird the insect. However, the human heart is vulnerable, it gets emotionally involved and pains at the play of nature's amoral ways.

Computer sciences teacher, Sanjay Banerjee, from Burdwan (WB), broke his heart. It was over a shy little beauty, a migratory Bluethroat, that breeds come summer in the northern latitudes from Europe to Asia and Alaska. The male's chest and neck are bedecked with falling necklaces of glowing feathers, or as if rainbow rows of colour had cast a half-dome upon the bird. It is of such small-boned elegance, coy eyes and reticent manne...