Society cannot remain a passive audience to cruelty: Maneka Gandhi
In a candid conversation that spans 5 decades of advocacy, Maneka Gandhi emerges as India’s foremost champion for animal rights, reflecting on the battles fought from within.
In a candid conversation that spans 5 decades of advocacy, Maneka Gandhi emerges as India’s foremost champion for animal rights, reflecting on the battles fought from within.
The former Union minister was addressing the media while announcing the first edition of CineKind, a collaboration between the Film Federation of India (FFI) and People for Animals (PFA), to honour acts of kindness and humane storytelling in Indian cinema.
Speaking with a news agency, Gandhi said, “I am very happy with the Supreme Court’s new decision because the earlier order was not feasible to implement. Capturing all dogs and relocating them elsewhere is simply impossible.”
She said the move was impractical and counterproductive, warning that relocating dogs to shelters would worsen the problem as canines from neighbouring states, drawn by the abundance of food, would migrate to the capital and swell the stray population.
Gandhi called on Lt Governor Ladakh, Brigadier (Dr) BD Mishra retired at Leh and stressed for providing proper shelter for the camels.
Only a handful of the 3,000 or so known termite species are pests to people. The rest are soil engineers who create the ground under your feet and keep it healthy
India was a country where people lived together with animals and respected their lives. All this has changed in the last 50 years. What can you say about a country whose government says, happily, that 52 per cent of our exports are meat, fish and leather?
Like human beings, ants have often fought over food and territory. But ants began fighting with each other, or other nests of their own species, or other species, long before humans, at least 99 million years ago when dinosaurs ruled the earth
The 26 children who got the Bal Shakti Puraskar will participate in the Republic Day Parade on 26 January
But nurses and medical students demand immediate release of the two students detained for killing the 16 puppies, ask for NRS Hospital be made dog-free zone
