EDITOR'S NOTE: Jaidev Prasad Soni is an Indian wildlife artist who makes his home on the edge of Ranthambore National Park. Enjoy this Wildlife Art Journal magazine "Letter From India" and the trailer of Colin Stafford Johnson's documentary "Broken Tail" filmed in the area where Jaidev Prasad Soni lives.
By Jaidev Prasad Soni
To hear the roar of a tiger in the forest makes my heart feel good. I live in Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan, India, the place that some call “Tiger City.” If you have never heard of it, let me tell you: Sawai Madhopur is a gateway to Ranthambore, the Yellowstone or Serengeti of Northern India, famous for its diurnal tigers. Ranthambore National Park is one of the best known tiger reserves in the world and it also is home to leopards, striped hyenas, sambar deer, chital, nilgai, Hanuman langurs, jackals, macaques, sloth bears, Indian mongoose, civets and the shub-nosed crocodile. Historically speaking, the landscape where the park is located used to be hunting grounds for the Maharajas.
BATHING TIGER, watercolor, Jaidev Prasad Soni
India is a country with over 1.2 billion people; it is about one-third the size of the United States. Tigers need space to live. In a country with a lot of people, that can be a problem.
I have been a wildlife artist since 1995 when I started playing around with colors and brushes. The person who inspired me most was Mr. Fateh Singh Rathore...
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Author: Jaidev Prasad Soni
Post Date:October 20th, 2011
'Artist Jaidev Prasad Soni writes from the Gateway to Ranthambore National Park, India's version of Yellowstone and the Serengeti—a preserve where wild tigers still hang on in a populous country of 1.2 billion people.
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Research tags: Jaidev Prasad Soni, ranthambore national park, tigers, wildlife art, animal art, wildlife art journal magazine, david shepherd wildlife foundation, Fateh Singh Rathore, Valmiki Thapar
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