The elephant culturally symbolises India more than any other country and British novelist Paul Pickering says the pachyderm in his new novel has her roots in India. According to the author, his book Elephant is an affirmation of “I am my voice”. “And my voice is as big as an elephant, which in turn is as big as creation. But a hundred years later, an American academic feels the boy may have invented the elephant as the only kind and uplifting being in dark times. Pickering says an Indian elephant being tormented by a trainer saves the boy’s life and after the African elephant’s calf is taken from her for a warlord’s banquet, an Indian elephant kills her trainer by tearing him in two.

Source: The Hindu May 10, 2021 07:07 UTC