{"id":11176,"date":"2019-03-01T14:14:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T08:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goheritagerun.com\/?p=11176"},"modified":"2020-03-12T11:36:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T06:06:09","slug":"pench-2019-run-t-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goheritagerun.com\/pench-2019-run-t-shirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Pench 2019 Run T-shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Pench National Park is located in the Seoni and Chhindwara districts of Madhya Pradesh \u2013 and the main entrance is a short 2 hour\u00a0drive away from Nagpur.<\/p>\n
Seeonee<\/em>\u00a0is, of course,\u00a0familiar to anyone who has read Rudyard Kipling\u2019s\u00a0The Jungle Book<\/em><\/strong>. The book was set in the jungles of Central India and the precocious man-cub Mowgli \u2013 \u201cstranger to man, friend of animals, brother of the wolves<\/strong><\/em>\u201d\u00a0\u2013 was raised by the Wolf Pack of\u00a0these same Seeonee Hills. So the Pench Tiger Reserve is the fictional home of Mowgli and his friends.\u00a0 You can read more about Pench’s Jungle Book connection here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Pench 2019 run t-shirt was inspired by The Jungle Book’s characters – Mowgli the man-cub, Baloo the bear, Akela the wolf and of course, Sher Khan the tiger. All these characters have been illustrated in the Gond style \u2013 a form of tribal and folk art practised by the Gond people who are found predominantly in Madhya Pradesh.<\/p>\n