My Crow Vision - Jay Nikalje

Soon after Delhi-6 was launched many of the youngsters fell in love with Masakkali. It is sign of peace also. However, people say it’s a sign of love in India ever since ‘Kabutar ja ja ja…’ was on lips. Beauty is always loved to see. Or is it that they love and find beauty in it?

Peacock has always been the one people would die to look at. Every eye has a sense of beauty.

My eyes find beauty in a crow.



Have you ever seen any peacock sitting still and calm on the gargoyles of heritage architecture? Have you ever seen a Pigeon swinging near your window when the kitchen smells of chicken? How photogenic it would be!

There are many birds like Kingfisher and Eagles to take in photographs of; but only a crow gives you humanly postures.

My habit developed with a story in which Birbal tells Akbar the exact number of crows in their state. I actually started noticing them and asked myself why didn’t I learn it before? Crows (especially in west regions of India) have developed a habit of noticing humans and behave according to them.

Some of them hang out on beach sides near food stalls, while a group of peer agers and some of the older ones love to stay alone in peace looking at the sunset. Capturing them in the camera is so much fun!

I know very few wildlife and bird photographers but I am a ‘city life bird photographer.’ How cool is that?

Many of the expressions are captured through the lenses but there is nothing like love in them. As PDA has always been an issue for every couple, crows find wires a better option. You might have blamed them when you had antennas for TVs!

They say beauty is in eye of the viewer. I tried to look inside. Crows might have spoiled seats of your bike and roofs of your car too, but at the end of the day, they clean half of the waste that you throw out of the dust bins on roads!

I don’t understand why they are called ugly.

Poor creature, a social worker, a guardian for cuckoo’s children and at the end of all, they are supposedly family ancestors in some traditions. Now this beautiful bird has a lot of importance for me. It’s not even that effortful to search for it.

It would be disrespect for a lover to give a metaphor of this name, because racism says it has to be bad. Maybe hence, it is an abuse to say! I feel happy to say beauty is skin in.