During the many Covid 19 lockdowns, photographer Jithesh Pai developed a fascinating obsession — documenting spiders in his backyard. Soon, he was documenting natural history behaviours that were not known to science and publishing papers in scientific journals.
But most importantly, spiders were giving him lessons on patience and caring for loved ones.
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