About the Book: Taj Mahal : The Story of a Wonder of the World
Sometime in the mid-1990s, Amirtharaj Christy Williams, an Asian elephant
specialist, went to Rajaji National Park in Uttarakhand as a greenhorn research
fellow. His task was to radio-collar and track several elephants in the Siwalik
hills. As he went about his work, he formed close associations with several of
these amazing pachyderms: Mallika, the matriarch who held her herd together;
Kiruba, a new mother; Shahrukh, the young shy male; and Tipu, the Sultan of the
Siwaliks, the tallest elephant ever recorded in the national park and the
gentlest of giants..
In this memoir,