Tribute to Jim Corbett

I  love  Jim Corbett .

In 1925 Jim Corbett shot a man eater  who ate 125 persons in rudraprayag  district of uttarakhand . After shooting the  man eater there was a fair in which  Corbett sahib distributed sweets to villagers . A boy could not join the  fair because  his village is far from Rudraprayag . But his father  join the fair & told his son  that he met with him who  had fired one accurate shot .

 In 1942 Jim writes in his Narration “ A cripple on the threshold of manhood ,returning from the wars  with a broken body ,with no thoughts of telling of brave deeds done, but only eager to tell his father that with his own eyes he had seen the man who years ago he had not had the opportunity  of seeing ,a man whose only  claim to remembrance who that he had fired one accurate shot.

A typical son of Garhwal , of that simple & hardy hill-folk;& of that greater India, whose sons only those few who live among them are privileged to know . it is these big hearted sons of the soil , no matter what there caste or creed who will one day weld the contending factions into a composite whole, & make India a great nation  .”