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forest and open land. The man and womansaw him and came hastily towards him.The man was holding wooden spear andthe woman a burning piece of wood....the man saw the long canines andbig thorny nails from dreadful paws of thatferocious wild animal. It seemed to thewoman that this carnivore is just goingto attack her.The jungle man threw the spear withfull power towards him, broached his chestin a sudden blow. The outside man criedand fell down. The woman attacked himwith the burning wood. He got upstruggling and trembling and tried to runout of the deep jungle. The woman wascrying while attacking him again and again.The outside man ran away deep intoforest. He reached a rivulet coming fromhigh mountains flowing in sharp streams.A perennial stream made its way deep interra filled with vegetations. The man felldown nearby fainted and lost sense. Hisback and head was burnt and a flow ofblood from his chest was trickling in therivulet's flow.The year was 1952.In deep, dense, unknown, dark andprimitive jungles of Bastar, it was the firstmurder of a man from the outer world.Tarun Bhatnagar : Born at Raipur, is a poet and short story writer. He is in civil servicesin Madhya Pradesh. Tarun's first collection of short stories entitled 'Gulmehndi ki Jhadian'is published by Bharatiya Jnanpith, New Delhi. He lives and works in Bhopal.126 :: April-June 2013fgndi •