My Adventure in the Dark I was coming home one moonless night through a dark jungle. There was no light in the vicinity and nothing ahead, could be seen properly. An owl hooted from a ghostly banyan tree nearby and I also heard the soft call of a nightjar and the distant howl of jackals. In other days, when I came home, I could spot many stars in the night sky twinkle like a thousand beautiful eyes but that day I couldn’t see anything. I was much frightened by this. And when,