Historically, games and sports especially those which royalty indulged in often involved challenging an animal or taming one. A power dynamic of some sorts, this could range from a tiresome hunt on fo ...

a section of the houseboat owners and shikar tourism operators never really accepted the ban on recreational hunting after ...

Prakash Chand Gogineni said though the practice of Akhand Shikar has been stopped in the tiger reserve, small groups of tribals still try to enter the STR for the ritualistic hunting of animals.