New Delhi, July 28 -- This is the first of a 5-part series
For the communities in Maharashtra's Chandrapur district, May 27 was a dark day. In the morning, came news of 45-year-old Sanjeevani Maikalwar, a resident of Chiroli village in Mul taluka, being killed by a tiger.
According to media reports, Maikalwar had gone with her husband and two relatives to collect firewood. They had just reached the forest area near Bhagwanpur village, close to the buffer zone of the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, when a tiger hiding in the undergrowth pounced on Maikalwar and dragged her away. She died before her family could reach her.
A while later, 52-year-old Suresh Sopankar from Kantapeth village in the taluka took his goats to the same forest are...