India award for burning elephant photo
Biplab Hazra
Image copyright Biplab Hazra/Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards Image caption The elephants had to run for their lives as a mob threw burning tar balls at them
 Biplab Hazra's picture  shows a calf on fire as  it  and an adult elephant run for their lives in eastern India.
Image copyright Biplab Hazra/Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards Image caption This was one of 27 images honoured by the annual Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards
The note says a "crowd of jeering men" were flinging "flaming tar balls and crackers" at the two elephants when  Biplab Hazra  took the photograph.
 He  recalls the calf screaming in "confusion" as it fled.
"For these smart  gentle  social animals who have roamed the subcontinent for centuries  hell is now and here "  he  added.
Photo by Biplab Hazra
Image copyright Biplab Hazra/Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards Image caption The elephants had to run for their lives as a mob threw burning tar balls at them
  [TGT] shows a calf on fire as   [TGT]   and an adult elephant run for their lives in eastern India.
Image copyright Biplab Hazra/Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards Image caption This was one of 27 images honoured by the annual Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards
The note says a "crowd of jeering men" were flinging "flaming tar balls and crackers" at the two elephants when  Biplab Hazra  took the photograph.
 He  recalls the calf screaming in "confusion" as it fled.
"For these smart  gentle  social animals who have roamed the subcontinent for centuries  hell is now and here "  he  added.
Photo by Biplab Hazra