No man or beast can ever dare to come in the way of an elephant herd when it goes foraging along its chosen route, or corridor, of migration. Except the mechanical beast called the locomotive, which, bound by fixed tracks, cannot play by those rules. In India’s Northeast, home to more than 10,000 elephants, this often leads to an inevitable, and tragic, conclusion. Over 200 elephants have died after getting hit by trains in the north-eastern states in the past
