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  Joke This news is wrong and an agenda-driven one when it says someone deliberately fed a pregnant elephant with a cracker-stuffed pineapple. Still worse when communal colours are added to it, shamelessly. Interestingly, in most of the media coverage, the name of the district in which this cruel incident occurred is changed to suit the agenda of a section. Also, there is a concerted effort going all around to vilify the name of the state. Some sections from the state are actively on it, while some stretch their imagination to see if this has any relation with the literacy rate of the state… They all forget it conveniently that the sensitivity of the people in there brought the story out in public while such incidents elsewhere would have passed as a usual thing. While the total number of elephants died in conflicts with humans in Indian in the last five years (2014-15 – 2018-19) was 510, this was 42 in Kerala. In train accidents 77 (Kerala - 3); electrocuted – 333 (Ker...