Akasshdeep Roy, PhD
271 posts
@aakkoobaba
Visiting faculty @flameuniversity #politicalecology #humanwildlifeconflict #HWC •Hindu College • @weareAUD •@IITDelhi •@wii_india •@IISERPune
When @aakkoobaba and @parveenkaswan reported calf burial by elephants in North Bengal last year, I teared up. But, this latest report on elephant herds carrying out disaster rescue operation in Uttarakhand has left me truly numb. newindianexpress.com/nation/2025/Se…
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Why it’s important that a matriarch waits for her herd to cross before she goes forward. We lose many elephants each month- Bandhavgarh, Jhargram, Jalpaiguri. Elephants often die unnatural deaths. But they are deeply bonded, and they stay near their fallen kin. And they too shape our world. Our association with elephants is like an entanglement, as @rashmi89singh and others find. And elephants bury their young, as @ParveenKaswan and @aakkoobaba find. In burial, it is a shrine-creation, a memorialising act that makes the landscape a little bit more elephantine than it is. In these paths of memory and memorialisation, we learn that these deeply bonded animals shape the landscape just like we do. And from our side, there is much more to do for elephants. Reduce mining. Create passage. Clear weeds. Respect these giants.
#Elephant Mother not able to comprehend death of her calf. She keeps dragging body for some time - at times for days. They are so like us - they are so humane.
That is an interesting thing. Now another interesting thing is that the family of Maharani Gayatri Devi had a long history of keeping elephants. The kings of coochbehar had elephants in their stables for hunting rhinos and other animals in forests of Jaldapara, Manas, Buxa etc. Here is one illustration
