India, Sept. 7 -- Setting up of an art studio in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, by an artist from Kashmir marks his deep human bond with animals

Born in the rural area of the Anantnag valley of Kashmir in India, the artist as a young boy grew up in living in the rural area, there were not too many visitors but for foxes, wolves, bulls and wild cats who fascinated the seventeen odd children living in the rambling home of the joint family. Little Neeraj, then just five or six, made friends with a particular cat who would not let other children come near. His metaphor, in exile from the paradise he was born to, became the animal world he had cherished as a child with a deep interest in harmony and coexistence and a deep interest in Africa, ...