NEWS AND OPINION: In India, wells are pretty common. They are used for irrigation and I presume for water extraction for consumption. There are numerous stories of leopards falling into them. Sometimes they are rescued. Sometimes leopards are killed by local people as well. Wells …
NEWS AND COMMENT/OPINION: A report by The Independent newspaper tells me that the city of Beed in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra state in India has long been known as a place where a high percentage of women have hysterectomies. In fact, a 2018 government …
To be perfectly honest, I have no idea what’s going on. Except that we see a large crowd of people in, I am told, the Kukke Subramanya temple in Karnataka, India. It looks as if they are throwing rice at the elephant. They are having …
In Hindi: Aise logo ke sath kya hona chahiye jo innocent famale dogs ko bhi victims banate hai aapne lust ke liye. Translation: What should happen with such people who make innocent female dogs also victims for your lust? As the Twitter caption is in …
For me, there are two major points to make about this video. The first is that donkeys are tremendously undervalued by people. It’s almost as if people want to devalue them so that they can drive them to the very limits of their abilities and …
NEWS AND VIEWS – INDIA: I cannot embed the Twitter video but I can provide a screenshot (below). It shows a calm woman with her dog in a lift, I believe in India. And at least one person is harassing her in their native language …
Well, this photograph in its unpixellated form is on Twitter today 27 June 2023 but I have discovered that the image featured in a 2016 report by the News Minute website with the title, “Kerala politicians beat street dogs to death, hang them on a …
It is disturbing for the following reasons: It highlights a terrible breakdown in the human-to-animal relationship. It tells us that monkeys in urban environments in India are learning bad behavior from humans or are aggrieved by human behaviour as some believe that they steal dogs …
An Indian villager, Arif Gurjar, living in Mandka, Uttar Pradesh, has been adopted by the world’s tallest flying bird, a sarus crane, who he rescued when he was injured about 12 months ago. They had been inseparable since. Interspecies friendships are great. They are good …
