The rocky black outcrops, the withered trees of the jungle with their bare outstretched arms, the faint rustle in the thick dry leaf carpet on the floor... all feed into our vivid imagination as the safari jeep hits a dirt track and our eyes scan the forest. We’re pretty sure that Rudyard Kipling’s Akela sat on one of those rocks up above and looked over his pack, that Baloo and Bagheera must have hung around with Mowgli around that tree, years ago… After all, it is here — in what is today the Pench Tiger Reserve — in the heart of Madhya Pradesh that Kipling set his legendary story, The Jungle Book. With his 150th birth anniversary, and with Disney bringing out...
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