Gayneck

“Gay-neck” is a heartwarming and sometimes heartbreaking story of the training and the care of a carrier Pigeon written by Dhanagopal Mukerji. There are minute details of a pigeon's life and vivid descriptions of the Himalayan flora. It is a gripping account of a domesticated Calcutta pigeon and a young sensitive lad. The pigeon is trained to become a carrier. He is taken up into the Himalayas, where he gets lost and has many adventures. The pigeon was used as a carrier of secret messages by the Indian Army in France, during the First World War.