New Delhi: Breakfast is forgotten. Sleep is negotiable. What Anil Gandas never ignores is his phone, because on the other end, there’s almost always panic: a cobra in the kitchen, a leopard in the fields, a python strangling livestock. Within minutes, the 49-year-old animal rescuer is in his Scorpio, a jeep that doubles as a rolling jungle. When he returns, the trunk is alive—cages rattling, ropes and hooks tossed around, a snake hissing, a lizard or civet cat thumping against its crate.

Gandas doesn’t just live in Gurugram, he patrols the city like a one-man wildlife unit.

“The vehicle is on standby 24/7, fully equipped. Sometimes there are so many rescues lined up that the entire day just slips away. There hasn’t been a single day without at least one call,” Gandas said. Show Full A

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