12 and 13th

Visit to Kajiranga

After completion of a course at the then Central Police Training College,Mount Abu, I joined as the Assistant Superintendent of Police,Jorhat,Assam in December 1965 for field training of one year. During this period, i was attached to Bokakhat police station. Kaziranga,the abode of famous single horned rhinoceros,is situated in Bokhakhat PS area. I visited Kaziranga National Park for the first time on one fine early morning over an huge elephant. Our first encounter there was with a couple fawns (baby deer).They came and stood in front of the elephant. The elephant tried to scare them by its trunk. They smiled and disappeared in the bushes for a while. The elephant moved a bit. They again appeared.This game continued for about half an hour. Later i noticed that the elephant ignored them and started moving on its track. The SHO who on an other elephant along with a couple of armed escort constables said smilingly that perhaps the animals wanted to have good look at their new IPS officer. We saw a number of rinos,buffalo and wild pigs in the park.On way back i was looking for those two little fawns in the bushes and around.Ultimately i located them. From inside the bushes they were looking up and twitched their eyelids. I waived,they smiled and disappeared. This episode reminded me of two young Tibetan girls twitching their eyes and calling me to them in Darjeeling.They also disappeared thereafter.I was then a student (20) of LL.B in Allahabad University and had accompanied the Photography proficiency diploma group of the University for photography practicals there.There is astounding similarity in human and animal behavior.

Quotable Quotes :"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."Gilbert K. Chesterton