Dehradun, Feb. 16 -- A tiger on the prowl courtesy Ambika Singh

After many years of futile search, I concluded that the famous Shikari naturalist Jim Corbett never visited Mussoorie. Much as some folks like to believe, he never trekked up the seven-mile-long bridle path from Rajpur; he never visited the Powell family living in Wayside Cottage, Barlowganj. Instead, while sifting through the hill station's past, I found that the hunter pursued man-eating leopards and tigers with ease and tried his best to steer clear of the macabre.

He was thirty-two years old when he stalked the man-eating Tigress of Champawat - a fearsome beast that had strayed in from Nepal and had killed over four hundred and fifty people. Darkness follows dusk quickl...