So what triggered BAT? you to

start working on bats see i've been fascinated with wildlife nature as a whole are not specific to though i started with birding and stuff that moved on to mammals and butterflies so initial days we were documenting myself my friend chaitra we used to kind of document like even butterflies incest study their undisbehavior we documented digger was a couple of for three months in one of the hillock so in fungi ferns everything so like Everything was fascinating for us.

So when you learn about even plant-based system, as well as animals, bird was fascinating, so was all over.

But over a period of time, I think in late or early 2010, I realized like every one of my friends who were in this field who started birding photography with us had kind of made a niche in that particular domain.

For us, it became a sign of identity crisis for me, I would say.

And then not able to kind of position, okay, what exactly I do in this field, though I had a different career, but within the wildlife circle, there is a photographer, there is a filmmaker, and for us, it was kind of identity crisis.

So then I said, okay, I think we should probably focus on one stuff.

I got introduced to him through one of my friends in