The members of the Swami Vivekananda library and Club literati enjoyed the mysterious story of a tigress told here on Tuesday at a book reading programme.
The book reading session, ‘Meet the Author,’ was organised for the literature lovers of the city at the library. A noted author, Raghav Chandra, recited his book Scent of a Game before the audience.
The programme Meet the Author was jointly organised by Swami Vivekananda library and Club literati, Bhopal. Raghav Chandra, a senior civil servant and the author of ‘Scent of A Game’ is much fascinated by the big cats and this was the reason he wrote about the mystery behind vanishing of tigers from tiger reserves.
The blur of the ‘Scent of A Game’ follows the story about Burree Maada, the famous Royal Bengal tigress, the pride of the tiger gene-pool, mysteriously missing from the hight-security of the Kanha Tiger Reserve. Mystery thickens as an old man’s surreal dream about his son, Ram—a highly successful NRI settled in Silicon Valley—being ravaged by a tiger uncannily begins to come true; Ganga, a brilliant Forest officer protecting tigers, is unceremoniously transferred; Sherry, a vivacious investigative journalist, is attacked repeatedly by the wildlife mafia; and a debonair Maharaja and his royal guests plan to recreate old-time tiger-shikar, with deep, dark vengeance in mind.
Set against the backdrop of wildlife conservation, Scent of a Game is a chronicle of tiger-poaching, big-game hunting and the international trade in endangered species worth billions of dollars. With its stark and unsettling storyline, this mystery-thriller transforms our understanding of not just the tiger and our environment, but life itself.
The book reading session would be conducted by Raghav Chandra. Chandra is a senior civil servant and the author of Scent of a Game. Notably, this mystery-drama- thriller spans the lovely tiger reserves of Central India, and moves on to Nepal, Myanmar, Indonesia and China. The audiences enjoyed the reading session a lot as Chandra also interacted with them about his experiences while he was writing this novel.