“The strongest body can still kneel, not because it is weak, but because it was trained to forget what freedom feels like.” — Anonymous Imagine being chained so you can only take a step or two. Imagine constant noise, drums, traffic, crowds, shouting day after day. Imagine being made to work for long hours until discomfort becomes “normal” and pain becomes background. Now imagine living that life not for a week, not for a festival season, but for decades. That picture is hard to sit with. Yet it describes the lived reality of many captive elephants across Asia (and in some places beyond Asia too). Elephants are powerful, intelligent, deeply social beings. The core issue is not that humans and elephants share landscapes; they have coexisted for centuries. The issue is how captivity is created and maintained, and what it costs elephants in body and mind. By Rudolf Ernst - http://www.filestube.com/6Gveb6baIsdLxqLvPb4QJo/105-Old-India-in-Paintings-Wallpapers-Collecti...