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Ajaikumar Reddy

One of the "Two" big professional hunters in India in eradicating the menace of human killing by Man Eating Tigers

He is the author of an exciting book on 'Man eating Tigers'.

Hyderabad: Year after year the list of endangered wildlife species around the world sadly grows longer. Trophy hunting is also endangered and today professional hunting guides are almost as endangered as some of their game. Rarer still are guides who specialize in tracking down man-eating animals. But one man who dealt with many man-eaters in his lifetime, also happens to be a qualified writer. He is Ajai ("Jay") Kumar Reddy of Hyderabad, who describes many of his hunts for marauding tigers in a fine new book, 'Man-Eating Tigers of Central India'.
Prior to the ban on big game hunting in India, Ajai Kummar Reddy, author of 'Man-Eating Tigers of Central India', was one of the top two professional game hunters in India, pursuing some 300 man-eating Tigers in addition to other dangerous animals.

Leading his high profile clients on game safari through the jungles of India, the author entertained the likes of Indian Maharajas, U.S. Governors and Senators, leading businessmen, and Hollywood celebrities. With his experience and knowledge of the remote Tribal dialects, he quickly became the hunter of choice where eliminating a man-eater was concerned.

"Ajay" has shared his thoughts, fears and triumphs with readers in this well written and descriptive narrative of a lifetime in pursuit of the 'Man-Eating Tigers of Central India'. The book is under distribution by Atlasbooks, USA.

Author Ajai Kumar & world Champion Award winner Hunter R.L.Griggs with his record size
cattle killer Tiger in 1964

Griggs' Wildlife museum donated to university of
Duluth, Min-USA

' Man-Eating Tigers of Central India' is
far more than just a recitation of killing beautiful but deadly great cats. Kumar describes the remote, roadless backcountry of India during the 1950s and 1960s. He brings the reader to isolated villages and smoky campfires,
the sometimes eerily silent and sometimes noisy jungles where tigers, leopard and pythons prey on deer and wild pigs and peafowl. When an aging or injured tiger can no longer capture natural prey, it turns to easier-to-catch villagers it finds gathering firewood or following ancient footpaths unarmed. Some man-eaters even grew bold enough to drag villagers from their huts at night. Professional hunters such as Kumar Reddy (often

with a rich American or European sportsman in tow) were called to eliminate the menace.

That was never easy. The man-eaters did not reach old age by being easy targets. Much planning, tracking, baiting, beating, sitting silently in tree blinds all night, were necessary to squeeze off a quick shot at stripes vanishing in the brush. And it was dangerous. In one chapter entitled "Rogue of Raipur," Kumar-Reddy describes guiding an American doctor on a tracking ordeal that lasted weeks. During this time several tribesmen were attacked and killed before the man-eater itself met its end only feet from the guide and his hunter.

Summed up, exciting non-fiction books like this one are as rare today as the striped cats that manage to survive in a few scattered forests of Asia.

Ajay Kumar Reddy who resides in Nagpur now plans to sell the copy rights of one or more stories published in his book for movie making.

Thoughts by E. Ajaikumar Reddy (Author "Man eating Tigers of Central India")

-Maju Kuriakose
Reachout's News Bureau
December'2003
First Featured in May' 2002

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