The death of Veerapan It was my birthday and I drank royal challenge whiskey and chatted with T at the Cosmo village. The music was loungy and she smelt nice, of soap and lavender. I leant forward about to say something witty when Aashi called and told me that Veerapan, the poacher bandit cop killing LTTE sympathizer who had eluded arrest for more than 20 years, who had killed over a hundred people and many more elephants, had been " shot dead "  close to the dense forests of the western ghats, the ether from where Veerapan handled his operations.... Read more about my journey to document this story on my photo blog		v8 v2 v3 v4 v5 v6