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In the chapter titled “The Obituary that Will Not be Written”, Neha Sinha writes about an elephant herd trying, repeatedly and unsuccessfully, to surpass a wall erected — illegally —on the fringes of the Kaziranga National Park in Assam to encircle a golf course. One photograph shows a young calf banging his head against the wall, trying to break it. Later, the calf was found dead next to the wall having suffered a haemorrhage. An educated guess indicates that he died in his attempt to break through. “When I read this,” writes Ms Sinha, “I unravelled.”
That’s the thing about Wild
