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Picture on top: Choti Tara male cub (L) and Matka.
Picture below: Matka (L) and Maya male cub ||| Gentle soul, tough spirit and an unrelenting attitude, welcome Matka the Clever, an absolute legend by all means. The series of events I was fortunate enough to witness in the weeks post monsoon have made my respect grow immensely for Matka. Below are his cubs, the one on the top with Choti Tara and the other one with Maya. Dear reader, if you’re still with me, read on! Choti Tara’s male cubs, after separating from their mother as the monsoon rains lashed upon Tadoba, have started infiltrating into Maya’s territory and thus putting her cubs in grave danger, as tigers fight to kill. Had it not been for Matka’s timely intervention on both sides, things would have been vastly different in Tadoba today! As Maya and cubs went into hiding in the great woods behind the Tadoba lake, a difficult area to traverse in but which she knows better than anyone else, Matka met with Choti Tara’s cubs just a few paces away from where Maya’s cubs were kept hidden, gentle but strong, and (i believe) told them to take it easy, that he was still the one dictating the affairs here! While one of Choti Tara’s cub went into the buffers behind Katezari immediately after this meeting, the other one continues to loiter around the Tadoba lake, albeit subdued and maintaining a low profile. Two days later, Matka personally escorted Maya and her cubs back to Pandharpauni, which is where she’s always felt most at home, and comforted her male cub (who was at much greater a risk than his sister). Playing the role of a gentle father on one side and a strong and affirmative one on the other, he has ensued that peace prevails upon the land! Matka has been an exemplary father and a partner 
Photographer :@mihirwildmahajan

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