"Babbar Sher ki kahani" is the life story of lion written in a simple, smooth and fluent Urdu language for young adults by Inderjeet Laal. A concerted campaign by the Gujarat Natural History Society in 1948 had compelled Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to declare the Asiatic lion as the national animal. But in 1972, the Bengal tiger was adopted as the national animal in a meeting of the Indian Board for Wildlife. This book describes the detail life history of Lion when it was the national animal of India.