The Elephant Chaser's Daughter

The human drama captured in this memoir is nothing short of amazing-a young woman's struggle between the two worlds of her existence. Saved by her grandmother from being killed at birth for being a female, and abandoned by her mother at a young age, Shilpa faces the formidable constraints placed on her by her family and the village elders.



The values with which she is being brought up in a school for poor children started by a philanthropist come in conflict with those of her family, tearing...