While just going through the newspaper, what caught my attention was the article about an elephant that had died the previous day. Bijlee was her name. I had seen her a lot of times. It was only after I read the entire article did I know what the pain, desperation & hatred in her eyes suggested.
She was pained by the many injuries she had suffered once, by falling inside a pit while on her way back from . Desperation to fled far away to the grasslands from the place that was completely alien to her. Hatred towards the people who made her do what she wasn't supposed to - slog on the streets begging.
At last, she was gone. A part of me was sad that she had lost the battle of survival. But, what gave me solace was the fact that she had moved on to a much better place, a place devoid of the pain and sorrow. She was a fighter, a true soldier.
She taught us all a lesson- Never be cruel to animals and always be compassionate towards them.
