A Necessary Skill is the story of two village men and their close encounter with a tiger in the jungle they were passing by The passage is in the form of a narration that one of the men is telling He describes how a trivial skill he learnt during his childhood became a life saving skill for them The story aims to highlight how at the time of need any skill that one might have acquired during his or her lifetime can turn out to be a necessary one Hence the title of the story The narrator and his friends Hari Singh heard a terrifying roar and a tiger suddenly came towards them crashing through ...