The tiger sniffed the air: there was the smell of the meat but also the thick, overwhelming smell of the person inside, the person whose scent he had found on and around the meat before, and whom he could see now, sitting in the back of the smokehouse, a piece of meat in her hands.

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Areas as far north as Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu, and as far south as Batticaloa were bombed from the air, to prevent Tiger reinforcements reaching the area, and to cripple their fledgling air force.

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The American diplomat Joel Barlow, who in 1795 was posted as U.S. consul to Algiers, wrote to his wife that he had grown a thick black mustache, which gave him "the air of a tiger, " and had proved useful in his work in the region.

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On a starry night 55 years ago, deep in a remote forest of northern India, a 4-year-old boy nicknamed "sher baccha" (Hindi for "tiger cub") rode safely in the arms of his father, who carried him into the moist air.

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