New Delhi, June 27 -- "What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them," John Berger wrote years ago in About Looking (and in a slightly different context from which I'm using the line). Wherever one lives or whatever one does, this relationship with animals continues in India. It could be a relationship mediated by love, fear, distrust, hate or indifference but animals are part of our daily landscape, and we negotiate space with them, be it in a city, a village or a forest's fringe. In the Pilibhit forest belt in Uttar Pradesh's Terai region, fear is the primary emotion that mediates the relationship with animals. Here, tigers live as comfortably in the sugarcane fields as they do in the nearby forest-but cau...