This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The royalty of India—Hindu and Muslim—understood long ago that power was best wielded from the back of an elephant.

Before Rome awoke, the jurisconsult supervised the grooming of an Indian white elephant, an “exotic” marvel meant to match ...

Surrealist painter Salvador Dali’s works will be featured in an exhibition titled ‘Dali Comes to India’ in New Delhi starting ...

It all began with a chance 1967 meeting between Air India’s then public relations officer Jot Singh and Dali in a New York ...

Miami Beach, FL - An art installation featuring 100 life-sized Indian elephant sculptures has taken over the sands of Miami Beach, aiming to raise awareness about the decline in global wildlife ...

We'll suffer for it.” Born on January 22, 1938 in New York, NY the artist and diarist was educated at Yale University, studying art history with the famed abstract painter Josef Albers. After moving ...