Dina Sanichar - The Wolf-Man From India They found him living with wolves in a cave in the jungles of India in 1872. Was he a real life Mowgli? Dina Sanichar - Source : Wiki Media Commons A story doing the rounds of the internet these days is of a feral boy named Dina Sanichar. The 7-year-old boy was found in a cave living amongst wolves in the jungles of India in 1872, making people draw parallels with Rudyard Kipling’s character of Mowgli from the Jungle Book, some claiming Dina Sanichar was the inspiration behind Mowgli. Several articles have been penned on this story, a few on Medium itself. According to them : Dina Sancihar was in a c a ve, living with wolves, in a jungle of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh when found by a group of hunters in 1872. The hunters smoked the cave, killed the wolves, and “rescued” the 7-year-old feral boy, who still had scars and wounds on his body. They took the boy to Sikandra Mission Orphanage near Agra(Taj Mahal), where the Superin...