In the Shadow of the Leaves
Jan 2014 · The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
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Rohan and his mother are holidaying in the Kumaon Hills. Rohan should be studying his maths because he failed in his exams, but he is spending a lot of time reading Jim Corbetts Maneaters of Kumaon and wandering the hills with a village girl called Manjul who goes to herd her cows every day. The two become friends because Rohan admires the way she can jump streams like a little cat and her knowledge of the woods. Into their lives comes a tiger who is apparently killing cattle in the nearing villages. And then there is a mysterious man with a moustache who materializes at night and seems to be able to talk to both children and tigers. Rohan is convinced that he is Jim Corbetts ghost. Manjul is unconvinced. Whoever the mysterious man is, his task is to save the tiger from poachers and herd it back into the National Park. The result is a story of mystery and magic.
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Anjana Basu was born in Allahabad and started school in London. She works as an advertising consultant in Kolkata. She has a book of short stories, published by Orient Longman, India, to her credit. The BBC has broadcast one of her short stories and her poems have featured in anthologies brought out by various publishers. In the US, she has been published in Gowanus,The Blue Moon Review, and Recursive Angel, to name a few. In Canada, she has appeared in The Antigonish Review. The Edinburgh Review and The Saltzburg Review have also featured her work. In 2003, her novel Curses in Ivory was published.In 2004, she was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in Scotland where she worked on her second novel, Black Tongue which was published in 2007. In February 2010, her children's novel Chinku and the Wolf boy was published. Her novel Rhythms of Darkness came out in October 2011.Anjana Basu has worked on scripts with director Rituparno Ghosh for 'Antarmahal' and 'The Last Lear' and has subtitled several of his films including 'Unishe April', 'Dahan' and 'Chokher Bali'.
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