New Delhi, May 16 -- My phone and I, usually joined at the hip, were recently separated on a forest safari where mobile phones were not permitted. Sans a camera, I had to experience Satpura Tiger Reserve without capturing it through a lens. Freed from digital distractions, I gradually found my attention sharpening. I noticed flutters, rustling, chirps, whistles, pink flecks on glowing ghost trees, even the delicate pattern on a teak tree's infected leaves, their paper-thin surfaces translucent, riddled with holes through which sunlight streamed. I saw animals and birds, but also finer details: the gaur's white-socked legs and orange, blue and white horns; the arresting green eyes of a jungle cat peering through a fence, and thick cotton c...