The court order seeking the rounding up of this companion of humans over millennia is a sad story of our times, where our civilisational values have been obscured.
In 'The Cave of Echoes', Wendy Doniger shows how the stories of mythology—whether of gods, sages, demons or humans—enable cultures to define themselves.
The ASI claims Theh Polar village could be the site of a settlement destroyed in the battle between Pandavas and Kauravas. Villagers fled Pakistan during Partition and settled here.
In the centuries to come, economist Bibek Debroy's Mahabharata will attain the importance we attach to the texts of Shankara, Ramanuja, and Madhvacharya.
Economist Bibek Debroy passed away Friday at the age of 69. In this 2016 Walk The Talk interview, he spoke of challenges of governance and the need to do away with redundant laws.
The literary creation of the figures of Yudhisthira and Arjuna in the Mahabharata was likely a response to the historical example of Ashoka’s crisis of conscience.
A trunk in a dingy room in Udaipur’s City Palace had been sheltering thousands of miniature paintings of the Mahabharata, painted by Allah Baksh between 1680 and 1698.
India must reduce its overdependence on the US by cultivating alternative markets—concluding the EU FTA, advancing the UK deal, and exploring entry into the CPTPP, the open, rules-based bloc of Japan, Korea, and Australia.
As India-Russia trade decreases, India's April-July exports to the US this year increased by 21% compared to last year & imports from the US grew by 12%.
New Delhi: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Tuesday pushed for a “dual-track” progress for ties with India, separating economic ties from the boundary question,...
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
Of course it is your civilisational ethos. In pursuance of such ethos, please adopt all stray dogs. Else, fund the construction of massive dog shelters where you can care for them.
Why should the entire civilization suffer due to the ethos of a few? That’s gross gross injustice.
Thank you Prof. R. Mahalakshmi for bringing out the historical connection with dogs, apart from cows who are popularised more as a sacred in religious domain. Many conceptions are there about dog that has framed them negatively causing ritual impurity. Your personal story about Golu is heartwhelming which many of us pet-lovers particularly dog livers can relate to. I hope this article gets widely circulated and brings out new perspective about how people treat dogs. judicial judgement has shown how human-made social hierarchies and it’s prejudices are imposed on animals. It’s human who is deciding over who can be pet and who are left on streets. Discrimination in treatment can be noticed easily. I hope every dogs, regardless of their breed should be loved and taken care of because getting bites either from strays which people love to refer street dogs or from homely ones are to be treated equally. Love to read your article with many historical evidences.
Of course it is your civilisational ethos. In pursuance of such ethos, please adopt all stray dogs. Else, fund the construction of massive dog shelters where you can care for them.
Why should the entire civilization suffer due to the ethos of a few? That’s gross gross injustice.
Thank you Prof. R. Mahalakshmi for bringing out the historical connection with dogs, apart from cows who are popularised more as a sacred in religious domain. Many conceptions are there about dog that has framed them negatively causing ritual impurity. Your personal story about Golu is heartwhelming which many of us pet-lovers particularly dog livers can relate to. I hope this article gets widely circulated and brings out new perspective about how people treat dogs. judicial judgement has shown how human-made social hierarchies and it’s prejudices are imposed on animals. It’s human who is deciding over who can be pet and who are left on streets. Discrimination in treatment can be noticed easily. I hope every dogs, regardless of their breed should be loved and taken care of because getting bites either from strays which people love to refer street dogs or from homely ones are to be treated equally. Love to read your article with many historical evidences.