One-woman tusk force: A Wknd interview with Parbati Barua

She grew up taming wild elephants in the forests. Now 70, she is the first Indian woman mahout to be awarded a Padma Shri. ‘Most of what I did was already conservation,’ she says

One-woman tusk force: A Wknd interview with Parbati Barua
She grew up taming wild elephants in the forests. Now 70, she is the first Indian woman mahout to be awarded a Padma Shri. ‘Most of what I did was already conservation,’ she says