Owls fuel Indian collector's penchant for curios (the video is loading, may take long. Please bear with us...)

Owls may not be everyone's idea of an attractive bird but, Chandra Das of Orissa lives upto the adage that 'Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder' and feels that the bird is a 'rare beauty'. Such is her fascination for owls that she has stocked up her house in eastern Kolkata with various forms of the bird in every shape and size. Das, who started collecting owl curios since 1984, has always harboured a fascination for the bird, resulting in a vast collection of showpieces, penchant, vases and sculptures that fill up her home.