Indian Jungle - July 2007

It's midnight, pitch-black yet the air is full of life, and I find myself venturing down a Himalayan foothill, in northeast India, to enter a temple (celebrating Lord Vishnu) in the middle of the jungle - and 30 minutes before we arrive, Kripal informs me, casually, that "there are tigers in these woods, but nobody has been killed by one ever since the sacrifice to Lord Shiva 50 years ago, so you are safe."