As a young amateur photographer, Uddhav Thackeray had a hair-raising encounter with a tiger at the famous Kanha National Park. The big cat leapt out from the woods and glowered at him before walking away, leaving Uddhav breathless. The young Thackeray scion went on to photograph wildlife in protected areas such as Bharatpur, Kanha, Gir, and Ranthambore, learning the virtue of coexistence. And when he had his first photography exhibition in 1999, he named it ‘Live and Let Live’.
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But his firebrand father Bal Thackeray, who inaugurated the exhibition, warned him that the rules of politics are different from those of the wild: predators in the political jungle are hungry for power.
