The myth of man-eater is propelled by our own innate, primordial fear of wild big cats. The term has no reference in our richly documented historical records
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Nothing much has changed after the shooting of tigress Avni (T1) by a private hunter in Pandharkawda in Maharashtra in 2018. Tigress Avni was declared a ‘man-eater’ by the Forest department, and Maharashtra’s Chief Wildlife Warden issued an order to eliminate her. Following this, a private shikari was ‘invited’ by the Forest Department to execute her. Like everywhere else in our country, nepotism rules - and the hunter’s son shot tigress Avni dead, and our honourable courts are yet to rule on the blatant violations of laws that marked this sordid saga.
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