CORBETT'S TIGERS

so today i am sitting in the lib. trying to focus on "political issues" when my mind is drifting into personal issues...
now let me clarify..personal bole to strictly introspective ones.....
and i feel that somehow the whole universe is lobbying hard to make me see inside and realize my defects and all....
so, i get up to get some stuff on international relations xeroxed......and while walking through the many galleries of that haunting place called the lib.....i uncosciously drift into the literature section and bump into this book..."man eating tigers of kumaon and rudryaprayag" by jim corbett.
hmmmm....this title seems to make a lot of circumstantial sense to me.....a quality which i probably share with the tigers!! haan!! afterall if not literally....but symbolically i am a man eater of sorts.....this is what i presume while picking up this hard back copy....pretty heavy haan....

now i had to tell the truth i had always wondered why on earth a tiger reserve should be named after a famous tiger hunter- jim corbett...this dillema is on the same lines as how come alfred nobel should be associated with a peace prize...

khair, i was to find an answer today...so i open this book expecting corbett to begin with an explanation somewhat on the lines like: since tigers are mean...crazy ..blood thirsty.....cruel carnivores...they are hooked on to human flesh and so eat human beings as staple diets or atleast lucky- day kill delicacies.......

but, he begins by saying something quite contrary...infact just the polar opposite.....in 9 out of 10 cases of man kill...a tiger attacks because it is WOUNDED.....or the 10th time because it is too old to follow a taxing hunt and since humans have encroached upon its natural habitat..this MAJESTIC animal is left with no other option..!!!!!!
i wonder, if i have something in common with corbett's tigers...to be technically correct...his tigeress!!!!

LONG LIVE CORBETT!!!!!