These are a set of pictures of an amazing daily event atop the hills of Kala Dungar at the edge of the Great Rann of Kutch. In a practise and ritual that has been going on since time immemorial, the temple authorities here feed the jackals of the hills here with rice sweetened with jaggery two times a day. I've just done an article for the November 2009 issue of Outlook Traveller
Check it up athttp://pankaj-atcrossroads.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-of-jackals.html
Harjibhai who's job it is to feed the jackals, lays out the rice for them
Jackals feeding on their cement concrete dining table
Harjibhai and the jackals
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