Brown girl in the ring
(WorldNews India)

As she has done for the past 30 years, Santoshi stepped out on July 4, caparisoned and painted, to participate in the Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra procession in Ahmedabad. At 60, she is the oldest among the 17 elephants part of the temple trust, with one more added from a local mahant in the procession this year. Advertising At the last minute, Assam put off sending four elephants more to join their group - if not walked with them - following a controversy over the tortuous long journey on wheels that would have entailed for the pachyderms. Santoshi has cataract in her right eye and is kept chained at all times in a small compound opposite the Lord Jagannath Temple near Jamalpur Darwaza in...