A snapshot from the book | Photo Credit:
Shatrunjay Pratap Singh
Activist and wildlife enthusiast Sundeep Bhutoria on ‘Bera Bond’, the first book on Rajasthan’s famed ‘Leopard Country’
After his 2020 book,
Calcuttascape: Musings of a Globetrotter, Rajasthan-born Sundeep Bhutoria’s latest is a coffee table book dedicated to the over 55 leopards of Bera. While the former is a compilation of the social activist’s columns and blogs, the new book,
Bera Bond,
takes us through his journey in 2016 into the leopard colony in the forests of Rajasthan.
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For those who have been wonderstruck by the recent viral video of cheetahs sleeping with a man in South Africa, a similar wonder awaits in Rajasthan. For decades, leopards and humans have coexisted pe