‘My upbringing does not allow me to take a life’: PM Modi on Man vs Wild

Tribune Web Desk 
Chandigarh, August 9 

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will feature in a special episode of Discovery’s ‘Man Vs Wild’, where they take an off-track journey across Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand. 

A new four-minute teaser has been released by the makers, where the host of the survival show, Bear Grylls is talking to the Prime Minister about the dangers of wildlife.  

Grylls says his focus is to keep “the most important man in India” safe.

Talking about wildlife, Modi says: “We should not take this place as a danger zone. When we go against nature then everything becomes dangerous. Human beings, too, become dangerous. On the other hand, if we cooperate with nature then she also cooperates with us.”

Modi reveals how he spent most of his childhood in the Himalayas. Meanwhile, Grylls creates a makeshift weapon and hands it over to the Prime Minister; he then asks Modi about wildlife conservation.

To which, Modi replies: “My upbringing does not allow me to take a life. However, I will hold on it (the spear) since you insist.”

When Grylls asks the PM about the need to keep India clean, Modi says: “Someone from outside cannot clean my India; the people of India make India clean. Personal hygiene is in the culture of the Indian people. We need to develop the habit of social hygiene. Mahatma Gandhi has done a lot of work on it and recently, we are getting good success in this. I believe India will succeed in this very soon.”