A leopard cub
Subrata Ray
Surrounding Gorumara forest in the Dooars region of North Bengal, there are vast
expanses of tea gardens that stretch for a long distance from the edge of the jungle.
Against the backdrop of tall trees, these tea gardens form a vast landscape that joins at
its end the great wall, as it were, of sal, teak and shirish of the green jungle. Located in
the Himalayan floodplains of Dooars, Gorumara also has a river that winds its way
through and exits the forest at its farthest point in the east. The eastern part of the
forest indeed overlooks a longer stretch