Frozen in time: India's last taxidermist keeps on stuffing When Santosh Gaikwad first got into taxidermy over a decade ago he would keep dead birds in his family's freezer at home, much to his wife's consternation. Now, as India's last practising taxidermist, he enjoys the use of two deep freezers large enough to hold a lion or tiger at his government-run workshop in Mumbai's national park. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES