(Mar 10th to 16th)
Format: Triple
Gerowlia waited in the sunshine and chuckled to herself like a female |
This is from ‘Letters of Marque’ in ‘From Sea to Sea’, volume 1. In his travels in Rajasthan RK is staying in a dak bungalow at Chitor, and has an embarrassing encounter with an elderly female elephant. |
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We trust each our own elephant, till our own elephant kills us. Other |
This is from the introduction to ‘My Lord the Elephant’, in ‘Many Inventions’. A mahout is talking to the ‘soldiers three’ and RK about his elephant, which is enraged and flailing about in his heel chains. The mahout goes on to tell how he once saw a white man astride an angry beast in Cawnpore. It was Mulvaney, who goes on to tell the tale. |
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‘Surely they make these things to please their Gods,’ said the Bull again. |
This is from ‘The Bridgebuilders’ in ‘The Day’s Work’. Finlayson, the Chief Engineer of the Kashi Bridge is stranded with his head foreman on an island amidst the rushing waters of a Ganges flood that threatens to sweep all away. In the night they have a vision of the Gods to whom the local villagers pray, talking together of how Mother Gunga has been trammelled and tamed by the great new modern bridge-works. |