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OPENING SHOT ||||| NATURAL WORLD<br />
NO MORE WAITING<br />
FOR THE BUTTERFLY<br />
MAN’S NEW BOOK<br />
HE IS A PHOTOGRAPHER, AUTHOR,<br />
naturalist and teacher. But Isaac<br />
Kehimkar is best known as India’s<br />
Butterfly Man. A living legend on the<br />
subject, his best-selling book The Book of<br />
Indian Butterflies was published in 2008<br />
and featured 635 species. On September<br />
30, the second book, Butterflies of India,<br />
will be released, covering 1,000 of the<br />
1,318 species found in India. Kehimkar<br />
had started his lifelong affair with the<br />
natural world by volunteering in 1979 at<br />
the Bombay Natural History Society<br />
(BNHS), where he is now the Deputy<br />
Director. The soft-spoken, self-effacing<br />
naturalist on how and when he got the<br />
Butterfly Man of India epithet: “Really I<br />
do not know when people started calling<br />
me with that title, but yes after the<br />
publication of my first book, I started<br />
getting fan mail and lots of queries from<br />
butterfly photographers and students<br />
wanting to study butterflies.”<br />
Clockwise from top left: Isaac Kehimkar on<br />
a field trip with butterfly enthusiasts;<br />
Crimson Rose; Orange Oakleaf; Chocolate<br />
Albatross; and Black Rajah<br />
30 ||||| SEPTEMBER <strong>2016</strong>
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