Mihir Godbole

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The grey wolf is many things to many people in India. For ecologists and conservationists, it is an endangered apex predator that needs to be protected. For historians and anthropologists, iconography associated with wolves usually represents the untameable forces of nature. For pastoralists and livestock keepers, the wolf is a sworn enemy. For the rest of us, the lore of the big bad wolf is etched into our imagination by tales we read as children.