The Children of Heaven

18/08/2024

17/08/2024

STOP BREEDING DOGS FOR PETS. BAN SELLING OF PUPPIES. RESCUE. ADOPT. DO NOT SHOP. BE KIND!

16/08/2024

12/08/2024

For people who don't believe in miracles, there was one unfolding that day in the darkness of a coffee shrub covered hill, in Mundakkai, beside which the earth lay jumbled in destructive flash floods and landslides.

Meppadi/Wayanad: An elderly woman and her family were sheltered by a tusker in a coffee plantation, while escaping the landslides in Mundakkai of Wayanad, Mathrubhoomi reported on Friday. Sujatha, who was in deep sleep beside her granddaughter Mridula, woke up with a start when her house was hit by the flash floods. The scenic hill station where she had lived for a large part of life had turned into a nightmare. Land was nowhere in sight and it was water all around, as if it was a sea. She saw trees floating by. When she peered outside, she was in time to witness her neighbour's two-storey house collapse which destroyed her house too. Pulling Mridula out of the collapsing walls and covering her with a cloth, Sujatha swam through the flooding water.

Crying for help, she continued swimming while desperately clasping her granddaughter’s little hand. None heard her shouts, but she could hear screams from every direction; more than 3000 villagers of Meppadi were in the same waters. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, she pulled her granddaughter and herself to the hard ground.

Fearing for their lives amidst the torrential rain and the flash floods, they rushed up a coffee plantation that seemed safer. It was then that Sujatha saw the elephant, a tusker, blocking their path. Sujatha thought it was all over: saved from a falling mountain, floating trees, rolling boulders and a devastating flood, now they would be trampled under the feet of this unpredictable giant.

Sujatha took one look at the terrified faces of her two grand children who were just out of the claws of death. And then she faced the wild tusker and cried out, "We have come from a great tragedy, don't do anything to us. We are afraid. There is no light and there is water all around. We somehow came swimming. Don't do anything to us".

The elephant's eyes filled up with water as if it could sense all their pain and distress. With two other elephants nearby, the tusker guarded them till dawn. Sujatha's daughter couldn't stand as her back was badly hurt. She liad down in the wet floor. Huddling together with her grand children, the elderly woman sat at the feet of the gentle giant.

While recounting that horrific night with reporter Sravan Krishna of Asianet News, she called the kind elephant that gave them a sanctuary as 'moopar', a term of respect used in Malayalam for an honorable person. When the rescue teams arrived in the morning, it was all strange faces. None were left in her village to lead the rescue efforts. And the tusker had remained with the shivering souls until the teams came in.

06/08/2024

Its humans that should be inside the cages not animals in the zoo.

03/08/2024

21/07/2024

Its just a choice.