Published 20:20 IST, April 21st 2019

WATCH | On day of blasts that rocked Colombo, Anand Mahindra shares goosebumps-inducing video of an elephant in Sri Lanka to state, ‘We will find a way for all of us to live together’

Anger, frustration towards terrorism and helplessness towards the failure to eradicate it were the dominant emotions once again as bomb blasts ripped Colombo on Sunday, killing close to 200 people. WATCH | On day of blasts that rocked Colombo, Anand Mahindra shares goosebumps-inducing video of an elephant in Sri Lanka to say, ‘We will find a way for all of us to live together’

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Anger, frustration towards terrorism and helplessness towards failure to ericate it were dominant emotions once again as bomb blasts ripped Colombo on Sunday, killing close to 200 people. And just when you feel that whole world is in a mess, a moment of resilience and never-say-die spirit makes one believe that ‘we will find a way for all of us to live toger’ just like Anand Mahindra recently did. businessman, kwn for his interesting take on various issues on Twitter, shared a touching video of an elephant finding his way out of a canal with help of creative Sri Lankans. 

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Chairman of Mahindra Group shared a video from Sri Lanka where an elephant gets stuck and desperately tries to come out, but to avail. locals that gar are concerned and call up a rescue team that create a lder of rope and tyres to help him come out.

elephant, however, moves into or direction and n y use firecrackers to bring him back to spot where y have reied ir arrangement. He later comes back, but lder can’t take his weight.  team ds logs to make it heavy, but elephant once again fails and can’t try again because he’s exhausted.

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In end, he makes one final attempt and succeeds, reminding us of numerous ‘try, try till you succeed’ stories that we have all heard since childhood. 

Mahindra’s tweet seemed to hint at blasts in Sri Lanka and battle against terrorism, but hoping to win over it one day, he wrote, ‘... all is t wrong with world. And that we will find a way for all of us to live toger.” 

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  businessman also called it 'tragically familiar' posts of condolences and condemnation of world leers over blasts.

 Earlier, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe dressed media and said 'action will be taken to stop activity of all extremist groups in country. Social media would be temporarily banned with 12-hour curfew from 6 pm to 6 am.'

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On Sunday, three churches- St Anthony's Church in Colombo, St Sebastian's Church in western coastal town of Negombo and ar church in eastern town of Batticaloa and three hotels, Shangrila, Cinnamon Grand, and Kingsbury were targeted, killing 185 people and injuring over 400, as per reports. re were two more blasts in Dematagoda and Dehiwala in day, as per reports.

19:47 IST, April 21st 2019