Elephant Stories
The latest issue of Frontline has this article on the plight of Kerala’s elephants. It begins with this quote from one of Basheer’s stories:
If he is displeased in any way at the manner in which the world is being run, he will kill an elephant keeper. For this reason, Kochunarayanan Namboodiripad, the head of the Chathangeri Mana, has stocked a number of elephant keepers.
Here is a translation of the Basheer story.
Here is Kipling’s story The Killing of Hatim Tai.
