How the Tiger Became an Indian National Symbol

How the Tiger Became an Indian National Symbol

In an open-top jeep, we rumbled into the forest at an ungodly hour of the morning. Bundled in layers and watching as the jeep’s headlights carved into the mist ahead, I was given the same advice Bill Clinton was given when he went looking for Bengal tigers in India more than 20 years earlier. “We’ve warned them [the Americans] that it’s not like British colonial times,” an official at Ranthambore National Park, located in the northwestern state …