Tag: Nihar Nalini Swain

In 1972, Swain and her husband Saroj, who was then posted as the director of Similipal Tiger Reserve, rescued a female tiger cub from Khaira River bank in Balasore district and named her Khairi.

Bhubaneswar: It is often said that love has the power to transcend unconceivable barriers & connect. The words ring true in the case of Khairi, a tigress who used to rush to the call of her foster mother Nihar Nalini Swain. It’s now over four decades that Khairi breathed her last in 1982, however, 90-year-old […]