Last week, while India’s top court was busy criminalising Delhi-NCR’s community dogs, 55-year-old Maria Gomes was being a busybody on Panjim’s streets. Like every evening, Gomes loaded 30 kilos of rice and chicken onto her bicycle, checked her stoves one last time, and set off on her evening round to feed over 300 street dogs she knows by name. If the order had come into force and were she in the capital, Gomes would have been held in contempt of court.
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