We may all care about the enviroment, some of us more passionately than others, but, the armchair is where it ends for most of us. Not for artist Niharika Rajput. Describing herself as a wildlife artist and conservationist, Rajput conjures up lifelike replicas of birds that populate our world and some that we have pushed to the brink of extinction. She uses paper, clay, wire mesh, paint and puts in hours, sometimes months, of painstaking effort to create these stunningly life-like sculptures.

Pic/Ashish Raje