Starting late 1980s, as an unintended consequence of the political strife and Bodo insurgency that hit western Assam, the tiger population in the Manas National Park dwindled. Over the years, as the guns went silent, the tigers returned: their count in 2022 is at a record high of 52 adults and 8 cubs
MOST of us in India may not today recall the name of Samuel Evans Stokes, the American Quaker missionary who had come to India in 1904, at the age of 22. His objective was to serve at a leper home in Sabathu, Solan. However, finding his inability to speak the local language as a deterrent in reachin