Brutally tortured through out life

godsinshackles.com Elephants in Indian temples - extremely tortured and abused behind the facade of glamour and feast.

What is being done to these young elephants — and to so many others kept in captivity for temples and festivals — is brutal. Taking animals still in their childhood or early youth, moving them thousands of kilometres, placing them into a system built on chains, isolation, and methods that deliberately break their will, all while calling it tradition or donation, is abysmal. The gap between the public image of majestic, sacred animals and the lived reality of fear, pain, and truncated lives is grotesque. These are highly intelligent, emotionally complex, deeply social beings. Forcing them into this existence is not neutral. It is a choice that prioritises spectacle, status, and money over their fundamental needs.

This is how they ”tame” elephants: Ketti azhikkal is not training. It is not discipline. It is systematic torture. Imagine a being whose mind is built for lifelong bonds, for recognising every member of its family by unique calls across kilometres, for mourning its dead with quiet, prolonged tenderness, for raising calves in circles of shared care. An animal whose emotional world is as complex and deep as our own. Now picture that same being — sometimes still a terrified youngster torn from its mother, sometimes a massive bull just emerging from the biological storm of musth — forced to the ground by chains locked around all four legs. Immobilised. Helpless. Then the men come. Often several of them. Sometimes drunk. They take up rods, heavy sticks, long poles and the iron hook of the ankus. They strike. They dig the point into the most sensitive flesh — behind the ears, under the chin, into the soft places where the skin is thinnest. Blow after blow after blow. The elephant cannot flee. It cannot turn. It can only feel every impact, every tear, every surge of agony while its body is held rigid by metal. The beating continues for hours. Sometimes longer. Until the animal stops fighting. Until the light in its eyes changes. Until the will that once held a family together across the savanna is crushed into pure, silent fear. This is how they “tame” them. This is how they transfer ownership. This is what they do to bulls every year after musth, under the lie that the animal has “forgotten” its place. And this is what they do to the young ones at the very beginning — the babies and sub-adults whose spirits are broken in the same way so they will never again trust their own instincts, only the voice that can deliver pain. Some die under the blows or from the injuries that follow. The ones who live carry the trauma in their bodies and minds for the rest of their shortened, chained lives: infections, broken feet, digestive collapse, tuberculosis, a permanent flinch at the sound of a human approach. They stand in festival processions under gold and silk, looking majestic to the crowd, while the memory of those hours of helpless agony lives on inside them. This is not tradition. This is not necessary control. This is the calculated destruction of one of the most psychologically rich and emotionally profound beings on Earth — reduced to a broken, obedient object for profit and spectacle. That is ketti azhikkal.

This is how the elephants are ”tamed” through extreme torture: Ketti azhikkal is not training. It is not discipline. It is systematic torture. Imagine a being whose mind is built for lifelong bonds, for recognising every member of its family by unique calls across kilometres, for mourning its dead with quiet, prolonged tenderness, for raising calves in circles of shared care. An animal whose emotional world is as complex and deep as our own. Now picture that same being — sometimes still a terrified youngster torn from its mother, sometimes a massive bull just emerging from the biological storm of musth — forced to the ground by chains locked around all four legs. Immobilised. Helpless. Then the men come. Often several of them. Sometimes drunk. They take up rods, heavy sticks, long poles and the iron hook of the ankus. They strike. They dig the point into the most sensitive flesh — behind the ears, under the chin, into the soft places where the skin is thinnest. Blow after blow after blow. The elephant cannot flee. It cannot turn. It can only feel every impact, every tear, every surge of agony while its body is held rigid by metal. The beating continues for hours. Sometimes longer. Until the animal stops fighting. Until the light in its eyes changes. Until the will that once held a family together across the savanna is crushed into pure, silent fear. This is how they “tame” them. This is how they transfer ownership. This is what they do to bulls every year after musth, under the lie that the animal has “forgotten” its place. And this is what they do to the young ones at the very beginning — the babies and sub-adults whose spirits are broken in the same way so they will never again trust their own instincts, only the voice that can deliver pain. Some die under the blows or from the injuries that follow. The ones who live carry the trauma in their bodies and minds for the rest of their shortened, chained lives: infections, broken feet, digestive collapse, tuberculosis, a permanent flinch at the sound of a human approach. They stand in festival processions under gold and silk, looking majestic to the crowd, while the memory of those hours of helpless agony lives on inside them. This is not tradition. This is not necessary control. This is the calculated destruction of one of the most psychologically rich and emotionally profound beings on Earth — reduced to a broken, obedient object for profit and spectacle. That is ketti azhikkal.

This is how they are broken through torture. All ”tame” elephants: Ketti azhikkal is not training. It is not discipline. It is systematic torture. Imagine a being whose mind is built for lifelong bonds, for recognising every member of its family by unique calls across kilometres, for mourning its dead with quiet, prolonged tenderness, for raising calves in circles of shared care. An animal whose emotional world is as complex and deep as our own. Now picture that same being — sometimes still a terrified youngster torn from its mother, sometimes a massive bull just emerging from the biological storm of musth — forced to the ground by chains locked around all four legs. Immobilised. Helpless. Then the men come. Often several of them. Sometimes drunk. They take up rods, heavy sticks, long poles and the iron hook of the ankus. They strike. They dig the point into the most sensitive flesh — behind the ears, under the chin, into the soft places where the skin is thinnest. Blow after blow after blow. The elephant cannot flee. It cannot turn. It can only feel every impact, every tear, every surge of agony while its body is held rigid by metal. The beating continues for hours. Sometimes longer. Until the animal stops fighting. Until the light in its eyes changes. Until the will that once held a family together across the savanna is crushed into pure, silent fear. This is how they “tame” them. This is how they transfer ownership. This is what they do to bulls every year after musth, under the lie that the animal has “forgotten” its place. And this is what they do to the young ones at the very beginning — the babies and sub-adults whose spirits are broken in the same way so they will never again trust their own instincts, only the voice that can deliver pain. Some die under the blows or from the injuries that follow. The ones who live carry the trauma in their bodies and minds for the rest of their shortened, chained lives: infections, broken feet, digestive collapse, tuberculosis, a permanent flinch at the sound of a human approach. They stand in festival processions under gold and silk, looking majestic to the crowd, while the memory of those hours of helpless agony lives on inside them. This is not tradition. This is not necessary control. This is the calculated destruction of one of the most psychologically rich and emotionally profound beings on Earth — reduced to a broken, obedient object for profit and spectacle. That is ketti azhikkal.

SOS 🆘🐘🆘🐘🆘🐘🆘🐘 TAKE ACTION EVERYONE Five very young elephants (5 - 13 years old - they need their mothers until they are 16 years old, elephants form extremely strong and loving bonds with their family and herd for life - see posts below this one to learn more) - transferred from Assam India to Tamil Nadu temples India (September 2026) They were moved ~3,000 km by road - 7 days in chains and ropes on the back of a truck) as “gifts” of privately owned ( listen you can’t ”own” an elephant (!!!) by human arrogance captive elephants (commercial sale is illegal). Activists question ownership (as I said - no human can ”own” an elephant it is a human arrogance idea), possible wild origins, the long journeys, and lifelong extreme unfathomable suffering in chains and isolation. Court declined an immediate stop but kept concerns open - meaning they know it’s wrong but do nothing. Bribes and corruption? Elephants & destinations • Durga (~5 years old baby, female) → Meenakshi Amman Temple, Madurai • Hiralal (~8 years old baby, male) & Shiva (~6 years old baby, male) → Arunachaleswarar Temple, Tiruvannamalai • Rupsing (~13 year old baby, male) → Sri Vaidyanatha Swamy Temple, Vaitheeswaran Koil • Bijuli (~5 years old baby, female) → Kanchi Kamakoti Gajashala, Kancheepuram Temple Contacts: • Meenakshi Amman, Madurai: 0452-2344360 | jceomdu_31962.hrce@tn.gov.in | maduraimeenakshi.hrce.tn.gov… • Arunachaleswarar, Tiruvannamalai: 04175-252438 | arunachaleswarar@tnhrce.com | annamalaiyar.hrce.tn.gov.in • Vaitheeswaran Koil: ~04364-279423 | info@vaitheeswarankoilgurukkal.com • Kanchi Kamakoti, Kancheepuram: 044-27222115 | kanchimutt@gmail.com | kamakoti.org | X: @KanchiMatham How it works & welfare: Young elephants are violently separated from mothers, ”trained” through extreme torture (see post below for more information about how elephants are ”broken” through extreme torture that often kills them) for compliance, then kept chained and isolated on hard floors, isolated, and used for ”rituals/blessings”. This causes chronic stress and unimaginable suffering (with trauma behaviour such as swaying, etc.) for decades. No animal-welfare motive drives these moves - ”tradition” monetary gain and prestige does. Mechanical fake but realisticly looking elephants are a cruelty-free alternative already used in some animal caring temples. Temple monetary gains Elephants attract more uneducated pilgrims and donations, boosting overall revenue (major TN temples already earn ₹40–60+ crore yearly from offerings and uneducated tourism). Prestige and festival appeals gain money for the elephant abusers. ACT NOW - REUNITE THE ELEPHANTS WITH THEIR MOTHERS - SEND ALL CONFINED ELEPANTS TO WILD AND GUARDED SANCTUARIES IMMIDIATELY. USE HIGHLY MONITORED NO CONTACT - ECO TOURISM AS AN INCOME FOR LOCAL PEOPLE AND SANCTUARY MAINTAINANCE

Thank you for speaking up 🙏 SOS 🆘🐘🆘🐘🆘🐘🆘🐘 TAKE ACTION EVERYONE Five very young elephants (5 - 13 years old - they need their mothers until they are 16 years old, elephants form extremely strong and loving bonds with their family and herd for life - see posts below this one to learn more) - transferred from Assam India to Tamil Nadu temples India (September 2026) They were moved ~3,000 km by road - 7 days in chains and ropes on the back of a truck) as “gifts” of privately owned ( listen you can’t ”own” an elephant (!!!) by human arrogance captive elephants (commercial sale is illegal). Activists question ownership (as I said - no human can ”own” an elephant it is a human arrogance idea), possible wild origins, the long journeys, and lifelong extreme unfathomable suffering in chains and isolation. Court declined an immediate stop but kept concerns open - meaning they know it’s wrong but do nothing. Bribes and corruption? Elephants & destinations • Durga (~5 years old baby, female) → Meenakshi Amman Temple, Madurai • Hiralal (~8 years old baby, male) & Shiva (~6 years old baby, male) → Arunachaleswarar Temple, Tiruvannamalai • Rupsing (~13 year old baby, male) → Sri Vaidyanatha Swamy Temple, Vaitheeswaran Koil • Bijuli (~5 years old baby, female) → Kanchi Kamakoti Gajashala, Kancheepuram Temple Contacts: • Meenakshi Amman, Madurai: 0452-2344360 | jceomdu_31962.hrce@tn.gov.in | maduraimeenakshi.hrce.tn.gov… • Arunachaleswarar, Tiruvannamalai: 04175-252438 | arunachaleswarar@tnhrce.com | annamalaiyar.hrce.tn.gov.in • Vaitheeswaran Koil: ~04364-279423 | info@vaitheeswarankoilgurukkal.com • Kanchi Kamakoti, Kancheepuram: 044-27222115 | kanchimutt@gmail.com | kamakoti.org | X: @KanchiMatham How it works & welfare: Young elephants are violently separated from mothers, ”trained” through extreme torture (see post below for more information about how elephants are ”broken” through extreme torture that often kills them) for compliance, then kept chained and isolated on hard floors, isolated, and used for ”rituals/blessings”. This causes chronic stress and unimaginable suffering (with trauma behaviour such as swaying, etc.) for decades. No animal-welfare motive drives these moves - ”tradition” monetary gain and prestige does. Mechanical fake but realisticly looking elephants are a cruelty-free alternative already used in some animal caring temples. Temple monetary gains Elephants attract more uneducated pilgrims and donations, boosting overall revenue (major TN temples already earn ₹40–60+ crore yearly from offerings and uneducated tourism). Prestige and festival appeals gain money for the elephant abusers. ACT NOW - REUNITE THE ELEPHANTS WITH THEIR MOTHERS - SEND ALL CONFINED ELEPANTS TO WILD AND GUARDED SANCTUARIES IMMIDIATELY. USE HIGHLY MONITORED NO CONTACT - ECO TOURISM AS AN INCOME FOR LOCAL PEOPLE AND SANCTUARY MAINTAINANCE

This is how they are broken down: Ketti azhikkal is not training. It is not discipline. It is systematic torture. Imagine a being whose mind is built for lifelong bonds, for recognising every member of its family by unique calls across kilometres, for mourning its dead with quiet, prolonged tenderness, for raising calves in circles of shared care. An animal whose emotional world is as complex and deep as our own. Now picture that same being — sometimes still a terrified youngster torn from its mother, sometimes a massive bull just emerging from the biological storm of musth — forced to the ground by chains locked around all four legs. Immobilised. Helpless. Then the men come. Often several of them. Sometimes drunk. They take up rods, heavy sticks, long poles and the iron hook of the ankus. They strike. They dig the point into the most sensitive flesh — behind the ears, under the chin, into the soft places where the skin is thinnest. Blow after blow after blow. The elephant cannot flee. It cannot turn. It can only feel every impact, every tear, every surge of agony while its body is held rigid by metal. The beating continues for hours. Sometimes longer. Until the animal stops fighting. Until the light in its eyes changes. Until the will that once held a family together across the savanna is crushed into pure, silent fear. This is how they “tame” them. This is how they transfer ownership. This is what they do to bulls every year after musth, under the lie that the animal has “forgotten” its place. And this is what they do to the young ones at the very beginning — the babies and sub-adults whose spirits are broken in the same way so they will never again trust their own instincts, only the voice that can deliver pain. Some die under the blows or from the injuries that follow. The ones who live carry the trauma in their bodies and minds for the rest of their shortened, chained lives: infections, broken feet, digestive collapse, tuberculosis, a permanent flinch at the sound of a human approach. They stand in festival processions under gold and silk, looking majestic to the crowd, while the memory of those hours of helpless agony lives on inside them. This is not tradition. This is not necessary control. This is the calculated destruction of one of the most psychologically rich and emotionally profound beings on Earth — reduced to a broken, obedient object for profit and spectacle. That is ketti azhikkal.

केट्टी अझिक्कल प्रशिक्षण नहीं है। यह अनुशासन नहीं है। यह सुनियोजित यातना है। कल्पना कीजिए एक ऐसे प्राणी की, जिसका मन आजीवन बंधनों के लिए बना है, जो परिवार के हर सदस्य को किलोमीटर दूर तक उसकी अनोखी आवाज़ से पहचानता है, जो अपने मृत साथियों का शांत और लंबे समय तक कोमलता से शोक करता है, जो बच्चों का पालन-पोषण साझा देखभाल के घेरे में करता है। एक ऐसा जानवर जिसकी भावनात्मक दुनिया उतनी ही जटिल और गहरी है जितनी हमारी। अब उसी प्राणी को देखिए—कभी माँ से छीन लिया गया भयभीत बच्चा, कभी मस्त की जैविक आँधी से बाहर निकला विशाल नर—चारों पैरों में जंजीरें कसकर ज़मीन पर गिरा दिया गया। गतिहीन। असहाय। फिर वे आदमी आते हैं। अक्सर कई। कभी नशे में धुत। वे छड़ें, भारी डंडे, लंबी लाठियाँ और अंकुश का लोहे का हुक उठाते हैं। वे मारते हैं। वे नुकीले सिरे को सबसे संवेदनशील मांस में गड़ाते हैं—कानों के पीछे, ठोड़ी के नीचे, उन मुलायम जगहों में जहाँ त्वचा सबसे पतली होती है। एक के बाद एक, एक के बाद एक प्रहार। हाथी भाग नहीं सकता। मुड़ नहीं सकता। वह केवल हर प्रहार, हर फटन, हर पीड़ा की लहर महसूस कर सकता है जबकि उसका शरीर धातु से जकड़ा रहता है। पिटाई घंटों चलती है। कभी उससे भी अधिक। जब तक जानवर लड़ना बंद नहीं कर देता। जब तक उसकी आँखों की रोशनी नहीं बदल जाती। जब तक वह इच्छाशक्ति, जो कभी सवाना में पूरे परिवार को जोड़कर रखती थी, शुद्ध, मौन भय में कुचल नहीं दी जाती। इसी तरह वे उन्हें “पालतू” बनाते हैं। इसी तरह वे स्वामित्व हस्तांतरित करते हैं। यही वे हर साल मस्त के बाद नर हाथियों के साथ करते हैं—इस झूठ के साथ कि जानवर ने अपना स्थान “भूल” लिया है। और यही वे शुरुआत में छोटे बच्चों और किशोर हाथियों के साथ करते हैं—उनकी आत्मा को उसी तरह तोड़ दिया जाता है ताकि वे फिर कभी अपनी सहज प्रवृत्ति पर भरोसा न करें, केवल उस आवाज़ पर जो दर्द पहुँचा सकती है। कुछ प्रहारों के नीचे या उसके बाद की चोटों से मर जाते हैं। जो जीवित बचते हैं, वे आघात को अपने शरीर और मन में बाकी छोटे, जंजीरों वाले जीवन भर ढोते हैं: संक्रमण, टूटे पैर, पाचन तंत्र का पतन, तपेदिक, मनुष्य के पास आने की आवाज़ पर स्थायी सिहरन। वे त्योहार की शोभायात्राओं में सोने और रेशम के नीचे खड़े होते हैं, भीड़ को भव्य लगते हैं, जबकि उन असहाय पीड़ा के घंटों की स्मृति उनके अंदर जीवित रहती है। यह परंपरा नहीं है। यह आवश्यक नियंत्रण नहीं है। यह पृथ्वी पर सबसे मनोवैज्ञानिक रूप से समृद्ध और भावनात्मक रूप से गहन प्राणियों में से एक का सुनियोजित विनाश है—लाभ और तमाशे के लिए एक टूटी-फूटी, आज्ञाकारी वस्तु में बदल दिया गया। यही केट्टी अझिक्कल है।

This is how they are broken down: Ketti azhikkal is not training. It is not discipline. It is systematic torture. Imagine a being whose mind is built for lifelong bonds, for recognising every member of its family by unique calls across kilometres, for mourning its dead with quiet, prolonged tenderness, for raising calves in circles of shared care. An animal whose emotional world is as complex and deep as our own. Now picture that same being — sometimes still a terrified youngster torn from its mother, sometimes a massive bull just emerging from the biological storm of musth — forced to the ground by chains locked around all four legs. Immobilised. Helpless. Then the men come. Often several of them. Sometimes drunk. They take up rods, heavy sticks, long poles and the iron hook of the ankus. They strike. They dig the point into the most sensitive flesh — behind the ears, under the chin, into the soft places where the skin is thinnest. Blow after blow after blow. The elephant cannot flee. It cannot turn. It can only feel every impact, every tear, every surge of agony while its body is held rigid by metal. The beating continues for hours. Sometimes longer. Until the animal stops fighting. Until the light in its eyes changes. Until the will that once held a family together across the savanna is crushed into pure, silent fear. This is how they “tame” them. This is how they transfer ownership. This is what they do to bulls every year after musth, under the lie that the animal has “forgotten” its place. And this is what they do to the young ones at the very beginning — the babies and sub-adults whose spirits are broken in the same way so they will never again trust their own instincts, only the voice that can deliver pain. Some die under the blows or from the injuries that follow. The ones who live carry the trauma in their bodies and minds for the rest of their shortened, chained lives: infections, broken feet, digestive collapse, tuberculosis, a permanent flinch at the sound of a human approach. They stand in festival processions under gold and silk, looking majestic to the crowd, while the memory of those hours of helpless agony lives on inside them. This is not tradition. This is not necessary control. This is the calculated destruction of one of the most psychologically rich and emotionally profound beings on Earth — reduced to a broken, obedient object for profit and spectacle. That is ketti azhikkal.

@PetaIndia @peta @humaneworldorg @waynehhsiung @tawf_uk @AnimalJustice @AnimalRising @MoveTheWorld @ndtvindia @ndtv @NDTVWorld @CNN @BBCWorld @BBC @PTI_News @KEFOfficial @PFCII @PMOIndia @KeralaTourism @CMOfficeAssam @assamforest @assampolice SOS 🆘🐘🆘🐘🆘🐘🆘🐘 TAKE ACTION EVERYONE Five very young elephants (5 - 13 years old - they need their mothers until they are 16 years old, elephants form extremely strong and loving bonds with their family and herd for life - see posts below this one to learn more) - transferred from Assam India to Tamil Nadu temples India (September 2026) They were moved ~3,000 km by road - 7 days in chains and ropes on the back of a truck) as “gifts” of privately owned ( listen you can’t ”own” an elephant (!!!) by human arrogance captive elephants (commercial sale is illegal). Activists question ownership (as I said - no human can ”own” an elephant it is a human arrogance idea), possible wild origins, the long journeys, and lifelong extreme unfathomable suffering in chains and isolation. Court declined an immediate stop but kept concerns open - meaning they know it’s wrong but do nothing. Bribes and corruption? Elephants & destinations • Durga (~5 years old baby, female) → Meenakshi Amman Temple, Madurai • Hiralal (~8 years old baby, male) & Shiva (~6 years old baby, male) → Arunachaleswarar Temple, Tiruvannamalai • Rupsing (~13 year old baby, male) → Sri Vaidyanatha Swamy Temple, Vaitheeswaran Koil • Bijuli (~5 years old baby, female) → Kanchi Kamakoti Gajashala, Kancheepuram Temple Contacts: • Meenakshi Amman, Madurai: 0452-2344360 | jceomdu_31962.hrce@tn.gov.in | maduraimeenakshi.hrce.tn.gov… • Arunachaleswarar, Tiruvannamalai: 04175-252438 | arunachaleswarar@tnhrce.com | annamalaiyar.hrce.tn.gov.in • Vaitheeswaran Koil: ~04364-279423 | info@vaitheeswarankoilgurukkal.com • Kanchi Kamakoti, Kancheepuram: 044-27222115 | kanchimutt@gmail.com | kamakoti.org | X: @KanchiMatham How it works & welfare: Young elephants are violently separated from mothers, ”trained” through extreme torture (see post below for more information about how elephants are ”broken” through extreme torture that often kills them) for compliance, then kept chained and isolated on hard floors, isolated, and used for ”rituals/blessings”. This causes chronic stress and unimaginable suffering (with trauma behaviour such as swaying, etc.) for decades. No animal-welfare motive drives these moves - ”tradition” monetary gain and prestige does. Mechanical fake but realisticly looking elephants are a cruelty-free alternative already used in some animal caring temples. Temple monetary gains Elephants attract more uneducated pilgrims and donations, boosting overall revenue (major TN temples already earn ₹40–60+ crore yearly from offerings and uneducated tourism). Prestige and festival appeals gain money for the elephant abusers. ACT NOW - REUNITE THE ELEPHANTS WITH THEIR MOTHERS - SEND ALL CONFINED ELEPANTS TO WILD AND GUARDED SANCTUARIES IMMIDIATELY. USE HIGHLY MONITORED ECO TOURISM AS AN INCOME FOR LOCAL PEOPLE AND SANCTUARY MAINTAINANCE

@PetaIndia @peta @humaneworldorg @waynehhsiung @tawf_uk @AnimalJustice @AnimalRising @MoveTheWorld @ndtvindia @ndtv @NDTVWorld @CNN @BBCWorld @BBC @PTI_News @KEFOfficial @PFCII @PMOIndia @KeralaTourism @CMOfficeAssam @assamforest @assampolice SOS 🆘🐘🆘🐘🆘🐘🆘🐘 TAKE ACTION EVERYONE Five very young elephants (5 - 13 years old - they need their mothers until they are 16 yesrs old, elephants form extremely strong and loving bonds with their family and herd for life - see posts below this one to learn more) - transferred from Assam India to Tamil Nadu temples India (September 2026) They were moved ~3,000 km by road - 7 days in chains and ropes on the back of a truck) as “gifts” of privately owned ( listen you can’t ”own” an elephant (!!!) by human arrogance captive elephants (commercial sale is illegal). Activists question ownership (as I said - no human can ”own” an elephant), possible wild origins, the long journeys, and lifelong extreme unfathomable suffering in chains and isolation. Court declined an immediate stop but kept concerns open - meaning they know it’s wrong but do nothing. Bribes and corruption? Elephants & destinations • Durga (~5 years old baby, female) → Meenakshi Amman Temple, Madurai • Hiralal (~8 years old baby, male) & Shiva (~6 years old baby, male) → Arunachaleswarar Temple, Tiruvannamalai • Rupsing (~13 year old baby, male) → Sri Vaidyanatha Swamy Temple, Vaitheeswaran Koil • Bijuli (~5 years old baby, female) → Kanchi Kamakoti Gajashala, Kancheepuram Temple Contacts: • Meenakshi Amman, Madurai: 0452-2344360 | jceomdu_31962.hrce@tn.gov.in | maduraimeenakshi.hrce.tn.gov… • Arunachaleswarar, Tiruvannamalai: 04175-252438 | arunachaleswarar@tnhrce.com | annamalaiyar.hrce.tn.gov.in • Vaitheeswaran Koil: ~04364-279423 | info@vaitheeswarankoilgurukkal.com • Kanchi Kamakoti, Kancheepuram: 044-27222115 | kanchimutt@gmail.com | kamakoti.org | X: @KanchiMatham How it works & welfare: Young elephants are violently separated from mothers, ”trained” through extreme torture (see post below for more information about how elephants are ”broken” through extreme torture that often kills them) for compliance, then kept chained and isolated on hard floors, isolated, and used for ”rituals/blessings”. This causes chronic stress and unimaginable suffering (with trauma behaviour such as swaying, etc.) for decades. No animal-welfare motive drives these moves - ”tradition” monetary gain and prestige does. Mechanical fake but realisticly looking elephants are a cruelty-free alternative already used in some animal caring temples. Temple monetary gains Elephants attract more uneducated pilgrims and donations, boosting overall revenue (major TN temples already earn ₹40–60+ crore yearly from offerings and uneducated tourism). Prestige and festival appeals gain money for the elephant abusers. ACT NOW - REUNITE THE ELEPHANTS WITH THEIR MOTHERS - SEND ALL CONFINED ELEPANTS TO WILD AND GUARDED SANCTUARIES IMMIDIATELY. USE HIGHLY MONITORED ECO TOURISM AS AN INCOME FOR LOCAL PEOPLE AND SANCTUARY MAINTAINANCE

PLEASE - HERE IS THE CONTACT INFO TO THE RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE - who took 5 young baby elephants (who need their mothers until they are 16 - to lifetime - they form extremely strong loving and advaced social bonds with their family and herd) from their mothers to inprison them in hellish conditions - temples of animal abuse for life. LET’S NOT GIVE UP UNTIL THEY ARE REUNITED WITH THEIR MOTHERS!!! - Five young elephants transferred from Assam to Tamil Nadu temples (September 2026) They were moved ~3,000 km by road as “gifts” of privately owned captive elephants (commercial sale is illegal). Activists question ownership, (either way - you can never ”own” an elephant - it’s enslavement and absurd) possible wild origins (caught wild from their mothers), the long journeys 7 days in ropes and chaines on a truck 3000 km from their homes in Assam, and lifelong welfare, they will live in extreme suffering for about 60 years. Elephants & destinations: •Durga (~5, female) → Meenakshi Amman Temple, Madurai •Hiralal (~8, male) & Shiva (~6, male) → Arunachaleswarar Temple, Tiruvannamalai •Rupsing (~13, male) → Sri Vaidyanatha Swamy Temple, Vaitheeswaran Koil •Bijuli (~5, female) → Kanchi Kamakoti Gajashala, Kancheepuram Temple contacts •Meenakshi Amman, Madurai: 0452-2344360 | jceomdu_31962.hrce@tn.gov.in | maduraimeenakshi.hrce.tn.gov… •Arunachaleswarar, Tiruvannamalai: 04175-252438 | arunachaleswarar@tnhrce.com | annamalaiyar.hrce.tn.gov.in •Vaitheeswaran Koil: ~04364-279423 | info@vaitheeswarankoilgurukkal.com •Kanchi Kamakoti, Kancheepuram: 044-27222115 | kanchimutt@gmail.com | kamakoti.org | X: @KanchiMatham How it works & welfare:
Young elephants are separated from mothers, trained through intense torture for compliance, then kept in short chaines on hard floors, isolated, and used for rituals/blessings. This causes chronic stress (swaying, etc.) for decades. Their entire lives are confined in extreme suffering. No animal-welfare motive drives these moves—”tradition” and prestige do. Mechanical elephants are a cruelty-free alternative already used in some temples. Temple monetary gains:
Elephants attract more pilgrims and donations, boosting overall revenue (major TN temples already earn ₹40–60+ crore yearly from offerings and tourism). Prestige and festival appeal attract publicity from an uneducated public audience. THIS NEEDS TO END NOW!! FREE THE ELEPHANT BABIES. RETURN THEM TO THEIR MOTHERS.

YOU CAN’T OWN AN ELEPHANT

YOU CAN’T ”OWN” AN ELEPHANT

END ALL ANIMAL LABS

अनुवाद: आप सोचते हैं कि वे हाथियों को मिठाइयों और प्रशंसा से पालतू बनाते और ट्रेन करते हैं?? मैं आपको एक झटका देता हूँ। वे हाथी को इतना यातना देते हैं कि कभी-कभी मौत हो जाती है, और अगर उनका शरीर बच जाता है, तो उनकी आत्मा मर जाती है—हाथी की सारी इच्छाशक्ति हमेशा के लिए खत्म हो जाती है। —- लेख से: कभी सोचा है कि हम अपने बंदी हाथियों के साथ वास्तव में क्या करते हैं? उन जंजीरों और बेड़ियों के पीछे असली कहानी क्या है, उन भव्य सजे-धजे दिग्गजों की, जो हर जगह हार्नेस और रस्सियों से बंधे खड़े होते हैं, यहाँ तक कि उनके शरीर के सबसे संवेदनशील हिस्सों पर भी? यह आम जानकारी है कि केरल में कई हाथी ‘रहस्यमय’ मौत मरते हैं। सबसे क्रूर कारणों में से एक है ‘केट्टी अज़िक्कल’ नामक प्रक्रिया, जिसमें हाथी, जो महीनों लंबे ‘मस्त’ काल से बाहर आ रहे होते हैं (जब उनके टेस्टोस्टेरोन का स्तर 60% से ज्यादा बढ़ जाता है), उन्हें यातना दी जाती है। ‍वीडियो देखें (लेख और वीडियो का लिंक देखें) यह देखने के लिए कि हम अपने बंदी हाथियों को कैसे मारते हैं रिपोर्ट्स बताती हैं कि कई महावत या यहाँ तक कि गुंडे इकट्ठा होते हैं, शराब पीते हैं और जंजीर से बंधे जानवर को छड़ों, डंडों और हुकों से यातना देते हैं। कई मामलों में ऐसे हाथी, जो बंधे और निर्दयता से प्रताड़ित किए जाते हैं, मर जाते हैं। बाकी या तो दयनीय जीवन जीते हैं या तपेदिक, सेप्टिसीमिया, संक्रमण, खुरपका-मुँहपका रोग और अन्य चिकित्सकीय कारणों से मर जाते हैं, जिनमें पाचन संबंधी समस्याएँ भी शामिल हैं जो इंपेक्शन से होती हैं। महत्वपूर्ण बात यह है कि हम अभी भी पैचिडर्म (हाथी) के प्रति सामंती जुनून में लगे हुए हैं और हम उस 200 करोड़ रुपये की अर्थव्यवस्था को नहीं छोड़ सकते जो उनके इर्द-गिर्द घूमती है। वह जानवर, जिसका कब्जा और स्वामित्व का हस्तांतरण देश में नियंत्रित है, त्योहारों के दौरान जैकपॉट लाता है। रिपोर्ट्स बताती हैं कि हाथियों को 99 साल के लिए 1 करोड़ रुपये में पट्टे पर दिया जाता है। ‘मूल्य’ के आधार पर, जो जानवर की भव्यता से आंका जाता है, वह एक दिन के काम के लिए कुछ हजार से लेकर लाखों रुपये तक कमा सकता है। लेख वीडियो के साथ यहाँ: onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2…

Speciesism is the unfair, unjust and immoral treatment and discrimination of individuals based on their species membership, typically involving humans viewing themselves as superior to other animals. It is as stupid, wicked, cruel, evil and wrong as racism. It must end Now!

How Speciesism Industrializes the Logic of Racism How humans enslave, torture, abuse and murder animals. The contempt-based worldview of speciesism produces industrial-scale harm and moral evil by treating sentient individuals as objects defined solely by bodily form. It declares human membership an automatic elevation above every other being, regardless of capacity to feel pain, fear, attachment, or preference. This elevation has no grounding in spiritual insight, coherent philosophy, or the science of consciousness and suffering. It rests only on the accident of species—the same arbitrary physical marker racism once used to rank humans. The resulting harm •Mass confinement and deprivation: Billions are born into cages and sheds where they cannot turn, nest, bond, or express basic behaviors. Their lives exist solely for extraction of flesh, milk, eggs, or labor. •Routine pain and terror: Beak trimming, castration without anesthesia, forced impregnation, mother-offspring separation, and extreme transport are designed conditions, not side-effects. •Industrial-scale torture and murder as ordinary practice: Tens of billions of land animals and far more aquatic animals endure confinement, mutilation, and fear before being killed for convenience. The process is continuous, mechanized, and global. It is not occasional cruelty but the everyday reduction of conscious individuals to raw material. The sheer volume exceeds any historical human atrocity. There is no “humane” version. Reducing sentient beings to production units and ending their lives on an assembly line is the absurdity itself: a civilization claiming moral progress while institutionalizing mass torture and killing solely because the bodies do not match the privileged form. •Psychological corrosion: Language and education train empathy to stop at the species line. Children learn that the capacity for fear and pain that matters in a human does not matter in a pig, cow, or chicken—the same selective blindness that accompanied every form of group domination. •Further consequences: The system drives deforestation, pollution, antibiotic resistance, and zoonotic risk by treating non-human lives as material rather than subjects of experience. These are the logical outcomes of ranking beings by physical traits and treating the lower ranks as available for ridicule, ownership, abuse, and disposal. 🍃🍃The elevated human True elevation does not consist in standing above other beings. It consists in refusing to stand above anyone. The elevated human recognizes that the capacity to suffer is not confined to her species and that moral consideration follows sentience, not species membership. She sees herself as one among many conscious individuals, not owner or apex of the living world. Humility and empathy are the refusal to participate in contempt—the recognition that the same arbitrary ranking once used for racial enslavement and genocide still operates when species membership licenses industrial domination, confinement, torture, and killing. Any worldview that rests on “we are human, therefore we may” is structurally identical to “we are of this race, therefore we may.” Both are contempt dressed as natural order. The only coherent alternative is consistent moral consideration for every being capable of experience, without exception for form, without hierarchy by bodily traits, and without the claim that one species sits above all others. @nytopinion @nytimes

Elephants stand among the most psychologically rich and emotionally profound beings on Earth. Their minds are finely tuned for connection: large, intricate brains support extraordinary memory, self-awareness, empathy, and the capacity to understand the feelings and needs of others. They recognize themselves, form lifelong attachments, and navigate a social world built on trust, cooperation, and care that spans generations. Their communication is a living language of the heart and the land. Soft rumbles that travel for kilometres through air and earth, gentle trunk caresses, scent that carries individual identity, and subtle gestures all weave a constant web of presence. Recent discoveries reveal they even invent unique, non-imitative “names” for one another—calling out to specific loved ones across the distance, and answering when their own name is spoken. In this way an entire family stays emotionally linked even when scattered across the savanna. At the centre of their lives are the family and the herd. Matriarchs carry decades of hard-won wisdom about water, danger, and kinship. Sisters, aunts, grandmothers, and older sisters raise the calves together in a circle of shared devotion. When a young one is orphaned, the group does not abandon it; another female steps forward as allomother, offering protection, comfort, and guidance. Distressed companions are met with quiet reassurance—trunks that stroke, bodies that press close, soft vocalisations that soothe. When death comes, family members linger, touch the body with infinite tenderness, sometimes cover it with earth or branches, and return later to the place of loss. These are not isolated acts; they are the natural expression of a society organised around love, continuity, and mutual responsibility. Set beside this, the record of our own species can feel stark. Humans have perfected systems of exploitation—of one another, of other animals, and of the living world itself. Wars, slavery, industrial-scale cruelty, the reduction of sentient beings to resources, the prioritising of individual gain over collective well-being, and the casual infliction of suffering for power, profit, or convenience stand in painful contrast to the elephants’ steady ethic of care. Where elephant society expands the circle of belonging, human history is littered with the deliberate narrowing of that circle, the elevation of ego, and the willingness to treat both kin and strangers as expendable. Elephants remind us that complexity of mind need not lead to domination. Their lives show that intelligence can flower into deep loyalty, patient nurturance, and a quiet, enduring tenderness toward those with whom one shares the long journey. 🆘FREE THEM ALL🆘🐘🆘 🆘🐘🆘🐘NOW🐘🆘🐘🆘

These majestic, extremely complex and intelligent animals, far wiser and higher in spiritual development than us, are tormented, hunted, tortured, confined, enslaved and ridiculed by stupid, moronic, infantile, evil, demonic primates called humans.

You think they tame and train elephants with treats and appraisal?? Let me give you a wake up call. They torture the elephant so hard, sometimes to death, and if their body survive, their soul dies, all of the elephants willpower is gone forever. —- From the article: Ever wondered what we really do to our captive elephants? What is the real story behind those chains and shackles, those majestic caparisoned giants who stand with harnesses and ropes all over them, including on the most sensitive parts of their body? It is common knowledge that many jumbos die a 'mystery' death in Kerala. One of the most gruesome reasons is a process called 'ketti azhikkal', in which the elephants, just emerging from the months-long 'musth' period, when their testosterone levels shoot up by over 60%, are tortured.  ‍Watch the video (see link with article and video) to see how we kill our captive elephants Reports say that multiple mahouts or even goons join up, get drunk and torture the chained animal with rods, sticks and hooks. In several cases, such elephants, tied and tortured ruthlessly, die. Others live a miserable life or die of tuberculosis, septicemia, infections, foot-and-mouth diseases and other medical reasons including digestive issues caused by impaction. What is important is that we are still engaged in a feudal obsession with the pachyderm and we cannot give up the Rs 200-crore economy that revolves around them. The animal, whose capture and transfer of ownership is regulated in the country, fetches a jackpot during festivals. Reports say that elephants are leased for 99 years at a cost of Rs 1 crore. Depending upon the 'value,' judged on the grandeur of the animal, he could fetch anything between a few thousands to lakhs for a single day's work. Article with video here: onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2…

She is crying

SHE IS CRYING

How do I ….?? ”End up” 😂

Abolish all animal labs. Now!!

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The idea that animals are below us, ours to enslave, use, abuse and consume, and that nature is merchandise to exploit for profit, is a deranged, evil way of seeing life. That delusion must end now!

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