Lord
of the Grassland/Nirmal Ghosh. New Delhi, Nirmal Ghosh, 1994, 79 p., $11. ISBN
981-3002-74-3.Lord
of the Grassland/Nirmal Ghosh. New Delhi, Nirmal Ghosh, 1994, 79 p., $11. ISBN
981-3002-74-3.
"Born on the grasslands of the great Brahmaputra river, a defenceless male elephant calf grows into a formidable tusker, Roaming the lush green hills and valleys of Northeastern India and Burma. He is lord of the grassland, fearless and indomitable to all except man. With him, we thrill to the vastness of the Indo-Malayan rainforests and grasslands. With him also, we mourn the passing of these wildernesses as the roads, tea gardens and towns of human civilisation encroach at their inexorable pace, parcelling out the jungles into separate islands, and hemming in the great elephant herds.
"Lord of the Grassland is a poignant tale of an elephant caught in the transition from the days of limitless jungle to the post war India of ever-shrinking nature reserves. Yet the possibility of understanding between human and animal still exists, as seen in the delicate and tentative friendship between the elephant and the man Deben." (jacket)