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Three-year-old Vihan
Kodwate still has nightmares about the tiger attack and clings to his mother, Sulochana. In May 2018, little Vihan
had insisted on going with father, Beersingh Kodwate, 25, a Gond Adivasi, on
his motorbike to collect tendu leaves.
In the summers, these are a major source of livelihood around the forests of
central India; tendu leaves are dried
and then use for making beedis.

Beersingh had driven a few kilometres from their home in Pindkapar village in Ramtek taluka of Nagpur district, along a forested road, when a full-grown tiger hiding in the bushes near a culvert jumped on their bike and hit them with its paws.This is an area close to the Pench Tiger Reserve. Both father and son suffered serious injuries, and spent a week at the government hospital in Nagpur, recuperating. Vihan got eight stitches on his head.The attack was one of many in Vidarbha, signalling an escalating human-tiger conflict and increasing encounters, largely due to a shrinking of habitats for wild animals. See: <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/where-will-the-tigers-go">‘Where will the tigers go?’</a>

‘Tiger! Tiger!’ – a conflict burning very bright

विदर्भ में इंसानों और बाघों के बीच बढ़ता टकराव

جنگل میں گونجتی آواز – ’شیر آیا، شیر!‘

‘புலி! புலி!’ –மிகப்பிரகாசமாகப் பற்றியெரியும் பிரச்சனை.

वाघोबा! वाघोबा! – जंगलाला आग लागली, पळा पळा पळा

ବାଘ! ବାଘ!– ଏକ ଜାଜଲ୍ୟମାନ ଜ୍ୱଳନ୍ତ ସଂଘର୍ଷ

‘বাঘ! বাঘ! – দাউ-দাউ জ্বলে রাগ’

Virkhandi

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‘Tiger! Tiger!’ – a conflict burning very bright

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