The magazine's note accompanying the photograph explains that this was also a case of human-elephant conflict.
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.
The photograph has attracted a lot of attention on social media
Mainak Mazumder, who lives in Bankura, commented that villagers were responsible for "heavy habitat destruction" and that "elephants have been subjected to terrible abuses and tortures".
But, he said, elephants also have "wreaked havoc" by destroying crops, damaging farmland, and have "killed innocent people".
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