COIMBATORE: G Achuthan has been with elephants since he used to be a toddler. Coming from a circle of relatives of mahouts, he used to be offered to elephants very early and elephants too appreciated him, he says.
The 18-year-old formative years has identified six elephants thus far, maximum of that have been tended by means of his father or uncles. “Elephants have always identified me,” he says. So sturdy is Achuthan’s bonding with elephants that even after witnessing his father being trampled to loss of life by means of an elephant, he has come again to be a mahout’s assistant. Achuthan’s father G Gajendran, 43, used to be on May 25 ultimate yr, trampled by means of Masini, the elephant of Samayapuram Mariyamman Temple, Trichy, for which he used to be the mahout.
Achuthan, who used to be his father’s helper, says the elephant had attempted to attack him. “But father pushed me away and he got focused instead. The elephant pushed him down and I tried to tug him away, but ahead of I could act, Masini trampled him,” he says. For 10 days after the incident, Achuthan’s family members kept him clear of elephants.
“I was called to be an ad-hoc helper to Godhai, the elephant at Sriperumbudur Temple. Only on seeing her I regained normalcy. That used to be when people around me realized I couldn’t be with out elephants,” he says. Now Achuthan works as helper to the Godhai’s mahout.
After the fateful day, alternatively, has things changed? “Father used to inform me that loss of life is always around in a mahout’s task, as nobody can expect an animal’s vagaries. Also, Masini didn’t do it on function,” he says. While Masini is present process treatment at Orathanad, Achuthan says he would don't have any qualms in tending to it one day.
The 18-year-old formative years has identified six elephants thus far, maximum of that have been tended by means of his father or uncles. “Elephants have always identified me,” he says. So sturdy is Achuthan’s bonding with elephants that even after witnessing his father being trampled to loss of life by means of an elephant, he has come again to be a mahout’s assistant. Achuthan’s father G Gajendran, 43, used to be on May 25 ultimate yr, trampled by means of Masini, the elephant of Samayapuram Mariyamman Temple, Trichy, for which he used to be the mahout.
Achuthan, who used to be his father’s helper, says the elephant had attempted to attack him. “But father pushed me away and he got focused instead. The elephant pushed him down and I tried to tug him away, but ahead of I could act, Masini trampled him,” he says. For 10 days after the incident, Achuthan’s family members kept him clear of elephants.
“I was called to be an ad-hoc helper to Godhai, the elephant at Sriperumbudur Temple. Only on seeing her I regained normalcy. That used to be when people around me realized I couldn’t be with out elephants,” he says. Now Achuthan works as helper to the Godhai’s mahout.
After the fateful day, alternatively, has things changed? “Father used to inform me that loss of life is always around in a mahout’s task, as nobody can expect an animal’s vagaries. Also, Masini didn’t do it on function,” he says. While Masini is present process treatment at Orathanad, Achuthan says he would don't have any qualms in tending to it one day.
Son sticks to family tradition despite mahout’s death
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