The world is currently facing a challenging time with the multiple impacts of Climate Change, COVID-19, and conflicts such as the Ukraine-Russia war. We are struggling to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the slogan of “Leave No One Behind (LNOB)” outlined ...
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recently issued its synthesis report on six post-2015 findings, warning that the speed and scope of what has been done so far and the current plans are insufficient to combat climate change and that the world will cross the dangerous th...
The day that the Covid testing team (I have no idea where they came from. There are so many astronaut-like creatures floating about from so many different departments, governments, hospitals, testing centres, that I stopped wondering a long time ago and now just meekly submit to sticks being poked i...
I am hopeful that in my lifetime I am going to see a disruptive change in the eating and wearing of animal flesh. It is coming fast: the largest slaughter companies, and the largest investors in the world, have invested in laboratory-created real meat (called clean meat) and milk. These meats ...
When Britain’s largest bakery, Greggs brought, a vegan sausage roll into the market, it was attacked by a senior reporter as “Stalinist”, and the idea of having a vegan roll as “nauseating”. In India we never have this problem, because almost everyone at the top of societ...
Some months ago Anoushka, Abhishek, Sarthak, Garvita and Rishabh wrote to me from Thapar Institute and Technology, Patiala college in Patiala, requesting guidance with an animal welfare group they had started on the campus called Puppers Helpers Tiet.This gave me a new idea – of starting ani...
Five years ago I requested the Head of the Bar Council of India to get animal welfare introduced as a subject in the law colleges. He did it immediately. The result has been much more sensitive and informed lawyers, an annual moot court that is hosted by NLU Bangalore, PhDs in animal welfare (...
In 1987, a street litter of a month old puppies, being fed by me, started dying at an alarming rate. The splotches of blood in their stools were diagnosed as parasitic worms. The ill informed vet immediately gave them deworming tablets (which is a poison) and there was a rapid decline. All the...
Artificial Insemination (AI) of cattle is widely practiced in countries with intensive cattle production. In 2017, the National Dairy Plan of this government aimed at artificial insemination for 35% of all fertile animals. The number of inseminations is up from 20 million to 69.29 million.Ther...
Last week a barasingha strayed into a field in Panchkula. She ate a ball of wheat, only to find it was a homemade bomb and her jaw and throat were blasted off. Passers-by saw her sitting calmly on the side of the road, bleeding. They sent for the forest department. Those worthies arrived in fou...
