symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  Posed by Vivek Menon, Wildlife Trust of India, Delhi; and Mahesh Rangarajan, Director, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Delhi

• PACHYDERMS AND THEIR SOUTH ASIAN PASTS
  Mudit Trivedi, graduate student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago

• ELEPHANTS, EMPIRE, ECOLOGY AND ETHICS
  Raman Sukumar, Professor and Chairman, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

• ELEPHANTS IN RELIGIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS
  Christopher Key Chapple, Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology; Editor, 'Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture and Ecology', Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

• OMKARA: THE CREATION OF GANESHA
  Nanditha Krishna, Director, C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre, Chennai

• MY LORD, THE ELEPHANT
  Rachel Dwyer, Professor of Indian Cultures and Cinema, SOAS, University of London

• THE ELEPHANT IN TAMIL FILMS
  S. Theodore Baskaran, Tamil film historian and writer, Bangalore

• AN EBULLIENCE OF ELEPHANTS
  Shanthi Chandola, naturalist, wildlife filmmaker, photographer and writer, Bangalore; photographs by M. Krishnan

• TRUE COLOURS: ELEPHANTS IN INDIAN ART 
  Bulbul Sharma, artist and writer, Delhi

• A FOR AANA
  Anita Nair, writer and poet, Bangalore

• THE ELEPHANT AND OTHER ANIMALS
  N.V.K. Ashraf, Wildlife Trust of India, Delhi

• CAN THE ELEPHANT SPEAK? TOWARDS AN ETHICS OF 'VOICE'
  Dan Wylie, Professor, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, S. Africa

• ELEPHANT-KEEPING CULTURES
  Nicolas Lainé, PhD scholar, Centre for Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (LESC), Université Paris-Quest Nanterre La Défense

• BETWEEN GODS AND DEMONS
  Maan Barua, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford

• GAJAH: A NEW PARABLE
  Vivek Menon, Wildlife Trust of India, Delhi

• ELEPHANTS IN INDIAN CONSCIOUSNESS
  Sheren Shrestha, Wildlife Trust of India, Delhi

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by Charles Santiapillai

• FURTHER READING
  A select and relevant bibliography compiled by Mayukh Chatterjee and Vivek Menon, WTI, Delhi

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