Dang villagers have immense faith in invisible tiger god

Surat | Thursday | 22nd February, 2018

Summary:

Waghai (Dang): Sixty-five-year-old Savaji Gavit, a resident of Vaghmal village in Dang district, had sighted a white tiger near his village when he was young. Every village entrance in the hilly northern terrain of Dang has sign marks on stones that show tiger as god. Tiger in Gujarat was last sighted in the Dang district in 1993-94. Forest department records show that tiger had been sighted in this forest last in mid-1990s. Some researchers had recently claimed that they were sure of the presence of a few tigers in the Dang, but the forest department officials are not certain..