Hemalkasa Gallery:

An exotic bird takes a moment to show us who is the boss.

In the early days, Dr. Prakash was accompanying some visitors to the shrine of a tribal deity named Bablai when they met two Madia Gonds carrying macaques they had shot with their bows. One, a mother, still had her little one clinging to her dead body. Prakash asked for it and after some hesitation the men agreed. Prakash named her Babli after the deity. Saved from the tribal cook-pot, she remained part of the Hemalkasa family for nine years. She usually perched on Prakash's shoulder as he worked, hung on his arm, or clung to his vest.

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