Thereafter, each went its own way. Fittingly, this drama played out in the forest that was the setting for Kipling's 'Jungle Book'. Mowgli's Seoni is in Pench national park, around 400km from Bhopal.

‘Can you remember the first time you fell in love with a book?” That’s the question posed by Sam Leith’s The Haunted Wood. We bookish types all remember our first literary loves – the ...