In the Sundarbans, a tiger-shadowed wedding
Priyanka Mondal recently got married in the Sundarbans' Rajat Jubilee village amid memories of her father, Arjun Mondal, whose death in a tiger attack in 2019 has left his family struggling with sorrow and finances
January 4, 2021 | Ritayan Mukherjee
Forced out of the forest and into uncertainty
The Adivasis of Talgaon, in the Panna Tiger Reserve's core area, had to give up their traditional livelihoods when they were relocated. They now live without land titles, rations and schools – fearing further eviction
December 12, 2018 | Maithreyi Kamalanathan
‘Where will the tigers go?'
Tiger landscapes in Vidarbha are shrinking, largely due to infrastructure projects, while the tiger population is growing. So the animals venture into villages, where attacks are increasing. And there's no solution in sight
November 20, 2018 | Jaideep Hardikar
Tigress T1’s trail of attacks and terror
Before the tigress was shot dead on November 2, T1 killed at least 13 people over two years in Yavatmal. Who were her victims? How did she attack, and, as many here describe it, ‘sucked the blood out of her prey'?
November 7, 2018 | Jaideep Hardikar
‘When I see him back home, I thank the tiger’
Though Shankar Atram, a terrified cattle herder in Yavatmal, fashioned a near-comical flimsy ‘body armour' against the recently-killed T1, for him and other villagers the problem could now be more displaced tigers
November 6, 2018 | Jaideep Hardikar
In tigress T1 territory: chronicle of a killing
On November 2, T1, a tigress believed to have killed at least 13 people, was shot in Yavatmal district. What happened in the weeks before this massive operation involving hundreds of officials and dozens of tactics?
November 5, 2018 | Jaideep Hardikar
Widowed by tigers, abandoned by the state
Every year, estimates indicate, around 100 men are killed by tigers in the Sundarbans. A bureaucratic maze then disallows their widows from getting compensation, forcing them to live in distress and penury
October 12, 2017 | Urvashi Sarkar
'This calf went missing after I took this photo'
N. Swamy Bassavanna, a farmer from Mangala village, says in this sixth in a series of six photo essays on life in a forest, ‘Everyone should be involved in farming and understand the challenges we face’
August 21, 2017 | N. Swamy Bassavanna
'That is where the leopard and tiger attack'
Indra Kumar, who works in Mangala village near Bandipur National Park, records cattle herders, leopard attacks, folk art performers and the harvest in this fifth photo essay in a series of six on PARI
August 14, 2017 | M. Indra Kumar
Close encounters with the Prince of Bandipur
K.N. Mahesha, a naturalist and cultivator who lives close to Bandipur National Park, brings images of fighting bulls, sensitive cows, work elephants and raptors, in this fourth photo essay in a series of six on PARI
August 7, 2017 | K.N. Mahesha
‘Maach and chaash brought us to Sundarbans’
Flood, famine, Partition, riots, the promise of land and jobs drove early migrations to the Sundarbans. The settlers then battled disease, hunger and attacks by tigers, but eventually found a home
April 10, 2017 | Urvashi Sarkar
When Jayamma spotted the leopard
Jayamma Belliah, an Adivasi from Ananjihundi village in Karnataka, documents her life in a forest with a camera. An outstanding photo essay on PARI to commemorate March 8, International Women's Day
March 8, 2017 | Jayamma Belliah
The sting of bees and the tyranny of tigers
The ‘mouleys’ or honey collectors of the Sundarbans work without safeguards in dense and dangerous jungles – encountering crocodiles, tigers and the diktats of the Forest Department
September 23, 2016 | Urvashi Sarkar
Ferries, fish, tigers and tourism
All in a day's work on Bali island in the Sundarbans, in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district
June 22, 2016 | Mahesh Ramchandani
Land of eighteen tides and one goddess
A documentary that looks at how the blended mythologies of Ma Bonbibi and Dakshinrai aid the coexitence of humans, nature and the wild in the Sundarbans
June 21, 2016 | Malay Dasgupta
Ma Bonbibi, mother to humans and tigers
The jungle goddess of the Sundarbans in West Bengal demands that Hindus and Muslims unite in upholding her pact with the animal kingdom
April 16, 2016 | Shatarupa Bhattacharyya
