The Elephant Chaser's Daughter

When you are a female born into a poor Indian family, the odds are already stacked greatly against you.

Saved by her grandmother from being killed at birth for being a female and abandoned by her mother at a young age, Shilpa Raj faces the formidable constraints placed on her by her family, and the barbs of village elders bound by hundreds of years of oppressive practices and customs that subjugate women in rural India.

At the age of four, Shilpa’s life veers drastically from that of her fami...