Broken Tusk

Broken Tusk is a heart-wrenching tale that follows the trials and tribulations of a family of African elephants, narrated by the hero, a young male named Broken Tusk. From daily encounters with natural disasters to the cruel and devastating effects of human actions, Broken Tusk guides readers through the soulful journey of his family’s incalculable suffering. Alongside the hardships, readers also witness moments of joy, including playful games, mud baths, and even a bit of romance for Broken Tusk. With simple writing and short sentences, this absorbing story serves as an eye-opener for readers of all ages and provides an educational insight into the lives of African elephants.

Puthalath Raghuprasad is a physician practicing in West Texas, USA. He is an artist, painting with oil on canvas. He specializes in painting realistic portraits, animals, birds, flowers, and landscapes. His other interests are poetry, inventing, writing scientific papers on medicine, physics and astronomy. He has been awarded 21 US patents. In medicine, he has published a simple, safe way of resuscitating choking victims and an easy method of purifying basophils (a kind of white cells involved in allergies). In physics, he has published his explanation of what makes the sky blue. In astronomy, in a series of articles, he has elucidated how the fundamental properties of matter, the gravity and axial spin orchestrate all celestial body motion mechanics, in the presence of weightlessness and the friction-free vacuum of the deep space where all bodies are situated. He has constructed two elaborate websites. www.indiancentury.com, www.spinninguniverse.com. Also, his paintings are displayed at: www.epaintings.com..