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He narrates the story of the tusker in an exaggerating way. He tells that a tusker escaped from the timber yard and began to roam about, tearing up wild creepers, stamping on bushes and breaking branches at will. It came into the main road and smashed the small shops selling fruits, mud pots and clothes. It entered a school ground. It grunted and wandered about, tearing down the volleyball net, kicking and flattening the drum kept for water, and uprooting the shrubs. Teachers had climbed up to the terrace of the school building and helplessly watched the depredations of the elephant.
Iswaran tells that he was in junior class back then and was watching the drama from the rooftop. He hit the elephant’s toenail with a stick and the elephant shivered from head to foot, and then it collapsed.
It does not appear to be plausible because it is close to impossible for a child to control a mad elephant where even the adults are trying to save themselves! Also, getting beaten by a stick on the toenail would not make a huge mammal shiver and collapse.