After 120 days in Odisha’s Similipal forests, an Indian photographer captured a rare black tiger —one of NatGeo’s top images of 2024. Ravindra Kaushik (11 April 1952 – 21 November 2001) was an Indian Research and Analysis Wing agent who spied for India from 1975 until he was captured in 1983. Also known as The Black Tiger , Kaushik is considered as one of India's greatest spies. [2] He worked as a clerk in the Pakistan Army's Military Accounts Department, not as a commissioned officer. [3] He was exposed after a botched communication attempt by another operative. Arrested and interrogated, he was sentenced to death in ... The abnormally dark or black coat in such tigers is termed pseudo melanistic or false coloured. Black tigers The genetic variation that causes the mutation occurs in nature spontaneously, albeit infrequently. Claims of Black tiger sightings have been made since at least 1773 when James ...
