A wish fulfilled: Senthil Kumaran with elephant Moorthy at Mudumalai
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Tamed Tuskers, Senthil Kumaran’s series of photographs that depicts the bond between elephants and their mahouts are on display at Madurai’s J C Art Gallery till July
Two decades ago when Senthil Kumaran was in school, he read about a wild elephant on the rampage in villages of Wayanad, Kerala.
In 1998, the nine feet tall rogue
makhna (male elephant without tusk) killed 23 villagers and was eventually captured by the Forest Department, then sent for rehabilitation at Mudumalai Elephant Camp. He was christened Moorthy after the veterinarian at Mudumalai, Dr A Krishnamurthy.
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