Wildbuzz | Murders written in good English
Hindustan TimesThat line from George Bernard Shaw, “When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity,” came to mind when I came across a depiction of a tiger family from the British Raj. It was from the London publication, “Graphic Illustrated” of January 18, 1890, and titled, “An Unexpected Danger --- A Railway Engineer’s Predicament in India”. The illustration showed the coolies fleeing when the ‘Burra Sahib’ inspecting railway sleepers on a trolley suddenly came face to face with tigers “squatting” on the track. & DIPTI HUMRASKAR ) Athreya cites ‘Vana Katha’, a new, illuminating initiative of the NGOs, Nature in Focus and Wildlife Conservation Society. This is the essence of ‘Vana Katha’- stories of cultures deeply rooted in nature,” states the preamble to this much-needed initiative.
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