terrible anger: it chased the dogs into the village where they
ran for safety.
That didn't stop the elephant. It destroyed a dozen houses
and injured several people. The villagers were scared and
angry. Then someone suggested calling Parbati, the elephant
princess.
Parbati Barua's father was a hunter of tigers and an
elephant tamer. He taught Parbati to ride an elephant before
she could even walk. He also taught her the dangerous art of
the elephant roundup-how to catch wild elephants.
Parbati hasn't always lived in the jungle. After a happychildhood hunting with her father, she was sent to a boardingschool in the city.
But Parbati never got used to being thereand many years later she went back to her old life.
“Life in the city is too dull. Catching elephants is an adventure and the excitement lasts for days after the chase,”
she says.
But Parbati doesn't catch elephants just for fun.
“My work,”
she says,“is to rescue men from the elephants, andto keep the elephants safe from men.” And this is exactly
what Parbati has been doing for many years. Increasingly, the
Indian elephant is angry:
for many years,
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