Category : Wildlife | Location : National | Posted on 2025-06-09 02:38:01
When I was growing up in Kolkata in the 1980s and 1990s, the tiny patches of urban forests that grew around dilapidated houses and on empty pieces of land that were under property litigation became hosts to thousands of tiny wildlife that somewhat became part and parcel of our lives. I remember we played hide and seek in one such forest, with a pair of mango trees, a neem, a few wood apples and some betel nuts, and heavy undergrowth where I had first come face to face with a Bengal fox. The unassuming canine was also stunned by the presence of a slightly taller human, looking with equally curious eyes at it.
