Beauty and the striped beast
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Naina Hiranandani Jun 01, 2013 06:08 PM IST
Kya apne kabhi sher dekha hain?” [Have you ever seen a tiger?] I crane my neck to ask the boatman, his shirt fluttering in the wind. He glances away, eyes crinkling in amusement, and hollers...
Kya apne kabhi sher dekha hain?” [Have you ever seen a tiger?] I crane my neck to ask the boatman, his shirt fluttering in the wind. He glances away, eyes crinkling in amusement, and hollers, “Haan. Bees bar” [Yes. 20 times], over the sputtering engine. A nine-hour journey to the Sundarbans in the heat is no joke, but it’s all in the hope of encountering the royal Bengal tiger that lurks behind an impenetrable mesh of mangroves.
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