more-inYou don’t have a Sri Lanka souvenir until you have one sporting an elephant. The Asian tusker has made it to nearly all memorabilia — from t-shirts to tea packets and stationery. Traders possibly believe that you can’t sell a souvenir without the elephant validating its ‘Sri Lankan-ness’. My first encounter with a Sri Lankan elephant was four summers ago at an elephant orphanage — one that had 88 of them — in Pinnawala, some 100 km northeast of Colombo. I don’t know if an elephant will get a better home, but what if the move ends up separating some elephants from their families?

Source: The Hindu May 02, 2017 18:22 UTC