On the leper’s head trail

It was late one night when I chanced upon a <a href="https://karthikkc.medium.com/on-kenneth-andersons-trail-583a814a0296" rel="noopener">Medium blog by Karthik</a>. The first couple of lines captivated me to no extent — “A swing of the door of the bookshelf at home revealed a thirty-year-old treasure of my father’s. The nuggets comprised seven books of the most amazing shikar stories written by an Indian of British origin retelling in his own words, ‘the hunting escapades’ he had undertaken in the then dense jungles of South India”. I knew exactly what he was talking about. Kenneth Anderson’s seven hunting books occupy the ‘prime’ area in my bookshelf. They are the first books accessible once one opens the door and the reason for their easy accessibility is the simple fact that I reach out to them frequently. On average, my ‘beat’ covers all 7 books at least once a year. And so it was with mounting excitement that I read the blog well into the night. <a href="https://medium.com/@allohvk/on-the-lepers-head-trail-52b90c759234">Read More</a>