About the book: In the Shadow of the Leaves
Rohan and his mother are holidaying in the Kumaon Hills. Rohan should be
practising Maths because he failed in his exam, but he is spending a lot of time
reading Jim Corbett's Maneaters of Kumaon and wandering in the hills with
Manjul, who herds cows. The two have become friends because Rohan admires the
way she jumps streams like a little cat and her knowledge of the woods. Into
their lives somes a tiger which is apparently killing cattle in the nearby
villages.
And then. . . there is a mysterious man with a moustache who materializes at
night