“Hiring hunters, building fences, animal bait, all in vain...”

“Hiring hunters, building fences, animal bait, all in vain...” said a crestfallen Patterson to his companion, his resolve giving way to despair in the private con- fines of his tent. Everything was collapsing on Patterson with, on one hand, orders of pacing up the construction and on the other, withdrawal of the frightened workers from work. The fear of death looming large every single day, it was a spine-chilling episode where, as Patterson recalls, the noises of ravenous orgy at the devils’ meal-times – sometimes very close to their camps – would overwhelm him with misery and helplessness.

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Source:- IIPM Editorial, 2006

Editor:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri