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Electric elephants, digital donations and live-stream prayers: Faith goes high-tech in India
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Robot elephants made by Prashanth Prakash in Thrissur, Kerala, for a Hindu temple in a neighbouring state.
PHOTOS: COURTESY OF PRASHANTH PRAKASH
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Bengaluru - It was a sight that could have caused a mammoth accident. Amid the cars, lorries and motorbikes in Bengaluru city was a mini-lorry with an adult-size elephant, its trunk swaying with the road’s curves.
It was only after the signal turned green that many of the people driving around the mini-lorry in September noticed the elephant’s glassy, unblinking eyes. This pachyderm was a robot.
