Pench forest As the car turns into an excuse of a road that veers off the main highway, and we arrive at the village of Kanhiwada, perched on the outskirts of Pench National Park in Madhya Pradesh, an old ditty from the Sunday mornings of our childhood come into our mind — “Jungle Jungle baat chali hai patachala hai. Arre chaddi pehenke phool khila hai, phool khila hai.” Many of us will remember this song from Jungle Book — that timeless work of Rudyard Kipling that had been so wonderfully brought to life through a very popular television series many years ago. And though the jungle may no longer be as grand and endless as it must have been at one time, it is a fact...
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