scorecardresearch
Saturday, August 9, 2025
TopicThe Elephant Whisperers

Topic: The Elephant Whisperers

‘Treated Kartiki as a daughter, were exploited’— inside elephant whisperers’ dispute with filmmakers

Chennai: Mahout Bellie, who rose to fame as one of the subjects of the Oscar-winning documentary The Elephant Whisperers, lamented to ThePrint Thursday that...

Elephant Whisperers’ fight shows Indian documentaries need better contracts, IP regulations

Bomman and Bellie, the mahout couple from the Oscar-winning documentary, are seeking a ‘goodwill gesture’ of Rs 2 crore from filmmaker Kartiki Gonsalves.

PM Modi meets The Elephant Whisperers’ Bomman, Bellie at Karnataka’s Theppakadu Elephant camp

Earlier Sunday, PM Modi visited Bandipur Tiger Reserve where he interacted with frontline field staff involved in conservation efforts, as part of programmes to mark 50 years of 'Project Tiger'.

Naatu Naatu fever hits RS after Oscar. IUML suggests MPs shake a leg, BJP says ‘India has arrived’

Praise for ‘Naatu Naatu’ — which won the Oscar for best original song — and 'The Elephant Whisperers', judged the best documentary (short), cut across party lines.

India’s ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ wins Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film

Los Angeles: It is a historic day for India! Indian documentary film 'The Elephant Whisperers' won the Oscar in the 'Best Documentary Short Film' category....

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.