This is a tale of a terrifying conflict that turns even a jumbo into 'maneater'.Every animal can get mentally ill, owing to certain events, just like us.

So friends if big cats doesn’t give you bad dreams, let me tell you the story of Peer Bux, the man eater elephant!

He stood nine feet six inches at the shoulder and more than ten feet at the highest point of the convexity of the backbone. His tusks protruded three and a half feet and were massive and solid, with a slight curve upwards and outwards. His trunk was large and massive, while the skin was soft as velvet and mottled red and white, as high-class elephants' should be. His pillar-like fore legs were as straight as a beeline from shoulder to foot, and showed muscle enough for half-a-dozen elephants. Physically Peer Bux was the ideal of elephantine beauty, a true brute.

In the scorching heat of June 2002, a small village in Kurseong's Tukra Basti witnessed a horror beyond imagination. A rogue elephant, driven by a thirst for revenge, unleashed a killing spree that would leave 17 people dead and a community shattered. The shocking twist? The elephant had developed a taste for human flesh, a trait unheard of in these gentle giants.In his blind rage he ate portions of his human victims.

The events of that fateful day are etched in the memories of those who survived. The elephant, a...