Greetings

[Suhail Qureishi]

Thank you so much for your kind words , Young Man . It is my utmost privilege that you have enjoyed my reminiscences , so much . I knew Ajay quite well . He was was my senior . His favorite game to hunt used to be the Barasingha , the royal Bengal tiger and the forest panther . He was personally selected by Mr . Vidya C Shukla , during the golden years of Allwyn Cooper Limited .
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That's Ajay , beside Rao Naidu ... During our annual picnic . Me and Tobin Stakkatz are on the top row.

That's Ajay with 1 of his royal Bengal tigers .View attachment 355447

I am in absolute awe ... and i still cant believe that i am interacting with a living legend like yourself

i have some Ajaikumar reddy images that i wish to share ...but i am unable to share multiple images here

would you mind sharing your email address with me

also Major Sahab , the image of your " Annual picnic " which you have shared ..why does it look more like a negative of a photo film ? have you scanned it ? may i please request you to take a pic from your cellphone of the " annual picnic " image and share it .

Thank you and regards

 

[Major Khan]

I am in absolute awe ... and i still cant believe that i am interacting with a living legend like yourself

i have some Ajaikumar reddy images that i wish to share ...but i am unable to share multiple images here

would you mind sharing your email address with me

also Major Sahab , the image of your " Annual picnic " which you have shared ..why does it look more like a negative of a photo film ? have you scanned it ? may i please request you to take a pic from your cellphone of the " annual picnic " image and share it .

Thank you and regards

It will be my utmost privilege , Suhail .
I should warn you that the 2nd image is not owned by me . It is actually an image I received a few years back ... From a friend in India . Ajai had gotten a book out , at the time . I think he published it around 15 years ago .

I own the 1st photograph ( Annual picnic ) , which has currently been scanned in to my computer and thus copied in to my smart phone ... About a year , before . Send me your email address and I can send you a photograph of the photograph . Hopefully , it should be cleaner .

 

[Suhail Qureishi]

It will be my utmost privilege , Suhail .
I should warn you that the 2nd image is not owned by me . It is actually an image I received a few years back ... From a friend in India . Ajai had gotten a book out , at the time . I think he published it around 15 years ago .

I own the 1st photograph ( Annual picnic ) , which has currently been scanned in to my computer and thus copied in to my smart phone ... About a year , before . Send me your email address and I can send you a photograph of the photograph . Hopefully , it should be cleaner .

" Man eaters of central india" is the book that your friend Ajai wrote . My father gifted me the book 10 years back and i have read it about 6 times by now . This book is responsible for getting me in love with the Willys CJ3b jeep , to the extent that i bought a 1956 model , completely restored it and used it as my daily drive for quite some time.

my email address is suh20001@gmail.com , if you could please email me the " annual picnic" photograph along with a pic of you with a jeep and also photograph of any allwyn and cooper brochures that you may still have.

its and absolute honor and privilege to interact with you

 

[Major Khan]

" Man eaters of central india" is the book that your friend Ajai wrote . My father gifted me the book 10 years back and i have read it about 6 times by now . This book is responsible for getting me in love with the Willys CJ3b jeep , to the extent that i bought a 1956 model , completely restored it and used it as my daily drive for quite some time.

my email address is suh20001@gmail.com , if you could please email me the " annual picnic" photograph along with a pic of you with a jeep and also photograph of any allwyn and cooper brochures that you may still have.

its and absolute honor and privilege to interact with you

Absolutely , Beta . I should like to add a note about Ajai . He was a good fellow , and I knew him quite well . How ever , he and I had different approaches and philosophies to hunting ... Altogether . For this reason , we were not very close . Ajai viewed hunting as a " Vice " ( Like smoking ) . He enjoyed it ( At the time ) , but also viewed it as ecologically harmful . I had ( And have ) the opposite view . I firmly believe that hunting and conservation can go hand in hand . That is why ( When the Gandhi regime banned all shikar in India , in 1972 ) Ajai never pursued hunting again . The others ( Including myself ) either moved to countries where shikar is legal ... Or continued poaching in India . Of course , that just got harder and harder over the years .

Is Ajay still around ? I haven't seen or heard from him since I left India , almost 50 years ago .

 

[Suhail Qureishi]

Absolutely , Beta . I should like to add a note about Ajai . He was a good fellow , and I knew him quite well . How ever , he and I had different approaches and philosophies to hunting ... Altogether . For this reason , we were not very close . Ajai viewed hunting as a " Vice " ( Like smoking ) . He enjoyed it ( At the time ) , but also viewed it as ecologically harmful . I had ( And have ) the opposite view . I firmly believe that hunting and conservation can go hand in hand . That is why ( When the Gandhi regime banned all shikar in India , in 1972 ) Ajai never pursued hunting again . The others ( Including myself ) either moved to countries where shikar is legal ... Or continued poaching in India . Of course , that just got harder and harder .

Is Ajay still around ? I haven't seen or heard from him since I left India , almost 50 years ago .

I am from your school of thoughts , i consider hunting as source of food and as a form of wildlife conversation . So when i got my hands on the book in 2010 i actually backtracked him through the publishers and got a landline number for his residence in nagpur . I called and the gentleman on the other end who answered my call informed me that Mr Reddy had passed away 2008 . On further inquiry i came to know that he had a son who was still around , so i called him up . The son was not at all pleasant to interact with ..had no clue about his fathers past and was least interested in entertaining my question . Thus i left it there and forgot all about it.

I was so intrigued about the idea of how it would have been to hunt in india in the 1960's that i decided to try and meet Mr VC Shukla , but he passed away in an unfortunate incident in raipur in the year 2013.

But allah has his ways of making people meet ...and here you are on a forum which i just stumbled upon 2 days back ...as i was doing my research work for my upcoming book.

May you and your fellow shikari's live a long and healthy life and may i have the opportunity and the privilege to meet you all in person.

 

[Major Khan]

I am from your school of thoughts , i consider hunting as source of food and as a form of wildlife conversation . So when i got my hands on the book in 2010 i actually backtracked him through the publishers and got a landline number for his residence in nagpur . I called and the gentleman on the other end who answered my call informed me that Mr Reddy had passed away 2008 . On further inquiry i came to know that he had a son who was still around , so i called him up . The son was not at all pleasant to interact with ..had no clue about his fathers past and was least interested in entertaining my question . Thus i left it there and forgot all about it.

I was so intrigued about the idea of how it would have been to hunt in india in the 1960's that i decided to try and meet Mr VC Shukla , but he passed away in an unfortunate incident in raipur in the year 2013.

But allah has his ways of making people meet ...and here you are on a forum which i just stumbled upon 2 days back ...as i was doing my research work for my upcoming book.

May you and your fellow shikari's live a long and healthy life and may i have the opportunity and the privilege to meet you all in person.

Vidya C Shukla was a big time traitor ! He was my employer . He turned on his own kind , by joining the Gandhi cabinet and helping her push for the hunting ban in 1972 . But that is the thing about politicians . They are always ready to back stab any body , for power .

Thank you so much for your kind words . I will give you every thing I have , in terms of photographs and materials . Do you like this 1 ? I have many more scanned in to my computer ( And smart phone ) for using in my articles .

 

[Suhail Qureishi]

WOW this is simply amazing Major Sahab
i really appreciate your time and patience

 

[Major Khan]

WOW this is simply amazing Major Sahab
i really appreciate your time and patience

I sincerely apologize for the delay , Suhail . I just got home .