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Introduction:

Tiger are vanished from Gujarat in recent years sadly. It’s a fact now that Gujarat lost all tigers it had and nowadays not having even a single tiger existing. Here in this episode audiobook version of writer Haribhai Godani written book’s chapter about his experience that he had in north Gujarat’s jungle with the tiger named ‘Balelo(burnt)’ in 1948 January is presented.

DeshGujarat has experimented sound inputs in this episode for the first time. At appropriate places sounds of jeep start, tiger, animals, morning, night etc. are inserted for making your listening experience more realistic.

Detail:

One of the activities at DeshGujarat is to collect old, vanishing, out of print Gujarati books which are really worth and are so special that we Gujarati people can not afford to loose them.

For this cause, DeshGujarat visits ‘Gujari bazaar’ in Ahmedabad, frequently and scan the old-discarded book selling area there, in search of such books. DeshGujarat is proud owner of some hundred books of this kind.

Some books are so wonderful that they deserve reprint, but it is a costly affair and even after reprint, selling them may be another problem area. In such circumstances audio book can be the answer.

‘Haiye mandi Haatadi’ was the book written by late Shri Dr. Haribhai Godani in 1980. The book is no more available anywhere for last several years and DeshGujarat fetched it from ‘Gujari market’. This book has amazing documentation and real as well as folk stories which were written after hard field work by writer.

DeshGujarat.com is trying to republish this book’s some wonderful chapters in audio mp3 format. Here is one of the chapters from this book ‘Balelo’. With a thought that it would be good to preserve whatever documentation available about tigers in Gujarat, DeshGujarat choose this chapter ‘Balelo(burnt)’ to convert in audio book.

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