By the 1970s, he had his own shop on Hong Lok Street in Mong Kok, the street that used to be the place to go to buy birds, bird cages and related products. It was known as “Bird Street” among ...

After all, he has been painting cages for 50 years, starting as an apprentice in his uncle's bird stall in Hong Lok Street Bird Market before it moved to the bird garden in 1997.

MEERUT: Senior ornithologist at Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) Rajat Bhargava, 45, has another passion apart from the birds themselves — bird c.