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Article: The Still of the Wild
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 3, 1988
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A sudden loud bark broke the stillness of the fall day, and a
group of delicate white-spotted deer, the males with tall antlers,
bounded off through the forest.
The chital, once abundant in India, often is seen now only in
game preserves such as the 500 square miles set aside here at Sariska
in northern Rajasthan. Once the hunting grounds for the maharajah of
Alwar, Sariska today is one of the few places in this vast country
where nature, and those who come to visit, go unhindered by the crush
of a population approaching 800 million.
Here, only 3 1/2 hours from New Delhi and a couple of hours from
Jaipur, there are deer and antelope, peacock and porcupines, wild
boar and wild dog and, ...