Word: bhushan
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...incendiary implications. The details are key, and they seem to fluctuate depending on who is narrating the tale. Indian media have even given the surviving attacker conflicting last names. Some say it is Iman, not Kasab. "There are many doubts that people will have," says Bhushan Gagrani, a Maharashtra government spokesman. "But I don't see a reason not to believe the police...
...free to come down from the trees during the daytime, when the elephant attacks cease. Officials say hundreds of other forest villages in the region are also regularly trampled by irate pachyderms. "When I visit [the villages], I feel like I'm visiting a war-torn place," says Shashi Bhushan, an activist for the People's Union for Civil Liberties. The elephants are agitated because the lack of food in their own natural habitats has forced them to stray into human villages; when the locals resist, the elephants get mad. Meanwhile, the Indian government seems capable of little more than...