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  1. An elephant is `stolen’

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    / March 26, 2012 / Leave a comment
    In Hindi, they would say “bada haath maara”. Or rather in this case, it was a `haathi’. A man from Kerala was arrested by the police for `stealing’ an elephant. The man had `stolen’ to pledge it to repay a loan. UNI reports that Ashraf, a resident of Kerala was looking...

  2. Kerala elephants to get I-cards

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    / March 23, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Before Nandan Nilekani’s Aadhaar project gives cards to people in Kerala, the state’s elephants will have their I-cards. The Forest department will issue elephant data books to owners of the elephants, which will contain all details of the elly, including its photo, physical features, health details etc. The Times of...

  3. C for cat, E for elephant

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    / February 17, 2012 / 1 Comment
    This is a story from a trip in September 2009. Like errant schoolchildren ordered to keep quiet by the teacher, we sat silent, waiting in anticipation. I gesticulated `finger-on-the-lips’ to Pranav and Tejaswini, then five and six years old respectively, hoping the excitement of the moment wouldn’t make them react...

  4. Now it is TOI’s own country!

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    / February 1, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The Times of India considers Kerala its final frontier and that was breached today with the launch of the TOI in the state. Starting this morning, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode, Kottayam, Pathanamthitta, Malappuram, Palakkad, Thrissur, Alappuzha and Kollam will wake up to the TOI. The ad also gives a typical Kerala...

  5. Haathi mere saathi !

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    / January 16, 2012 / 2 Comments
    You can cover up all the elephant statues in Uttar Pradesh but can the Election Commission curb this man’s sartorial sense? This is the tie that adorned the neck of Mayawati’s trusted lieutenant Satish Chandra Mishra on Sunday. This photograph captured by journalist Anant Zanane of NDTV in Lucknow shows...

  6. An elephantine cover-up operation

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    / January 7, 2012 / 2 Comments
    By T S Sudhir   So Uttar Pradesh is all set to see Mayawati get Anarkalified, with Chief Election Commissioner S Y Qureshi playing Jahanpanah Akbar. Operation cover-up is all set to begin. The EC wants all Mayawatis and her elephants to go under a veil in UP till the last...

  7. God’s own temple festival

    Posted by Ganesh Narayanan
    / September 29, 2011 / 3 Comments
    Calling Kerala `God’s own country’ may seem like a cliche but if you are part of temple festivals in any part of the state, you will realize the tag is not without reason. Extremely colorful and vibrant, they are different from temple festivals in other parts of India, thanks to...

  8. Don’t save the elephant yet !

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    / June 8, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Kishalay Bhattacharjee   On 12th November 2010, villagers residing along the Goalpara-Solmari road witnessed a rare sight as two full-grown elephants engaged themselves in a two-hour-long battle just two-and-a-half kilometres from Goalpara town in Lower Assam. Though elephants are not an unusual sight in Assam or the North East,...

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