That’s when the driver of our 4x4 Jeep kills the engine in the heart of the dense wilderness.
“We are just listening,” my guide, Batti, says from the front seat.
“No walkie talkies, but we do have monkeys.”
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At this point, anything will do.
Word has it two tiger cubs were spotted in the vicinity before vanishing into the brush like phantom cats.
Now, amidst a sea of camouflaged tourists and telephoto lenses, again, we wait.
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At nine months old, they’remuchbigger than my mind imagined the cubs to be.
“It gives the feel of the ‘Jungle Book,'” Sachin says.
It does in fact, the jungles of India were the muse for Rudyard Kipling’s famous 19th-century tome.
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Children playing cricket in dirt fields.
Honking tuk-tuks and morning prayers aired over loudspeakers.
The aromas of cardamom and incense and marigolds at the local market.
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