The Supreme Court's recent remark that using elephants in temple celebrations is part of our culture highlights how ...

The Airavateshvara Temple, built during the 11th-12th century in Tamil Nadu, features an ancient optical illusion. The ...

A recent video shared by PETA featured one such robot elephant from a temple in Kerala. At first glance, it looked like a regular temple elephant gracefully swaying its trunk during festivities.

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Days after a temple cat from China created wave on social media, a temple elephant from Tamil Nadu has grabbed eyeballs. Sengamalam, the beloved elephant of Sri Vidya Rajagopalaswamy Temple in ...

This innovative initiative provides a cruelty-free alternative for temple rituals, addressing the growing concerns over captive elephant mistreatment and festival-related accidents. With Kerala ...

The child had responded with just one question, “What is this elephant doing in the temple when it should be happily living in the jungle”. The priest could not produce an answer to that ...

The non-profit People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India and 11-time Grammy-nominated Sitarist Anoushka Shankar ...

"We are capturing it and torturing it. It's unethical". Prakash was instrumental in bringing the robot elephant to the temple. The Voice for Asian Elephants Society donated it, claiming it would ...

Davanagere: The ownership of elephants by religious organizations has always been a contentious subject. However, Shri Umamaheshwara Veerabhadreshwara Temple at Shilamatha, a 1,200-year-old ...