Who created the fictional character named after the Hindi and Urdu word for "elephant" in the book where the principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli?
Hathi Shree. Hathi is a fictional character created by Rudyard Kipling for the Mowgli stories collected in "The Jungle Book" (1894) and "The Second Jungle Book" (1895). Hathi is a bull elephant that lives in the jungle. Kipling named him after "hāthī" (हाथी),(ہاتھی) the Hindi and Urdu word for "elephant".
Jayanto Banerjee Jayanto Banerjee (born 1958), who signs his work Jayanto, is an Indian cartoonist and illustrator. He created the character of the singing donkey Gardhab Das with his cartoonist brother Neelabh Banerjee for the Indian children's magazine "Target".