India stands at a critical juncture in its public health journey. After two decades of remarkable success—evidenced by an 88% drop in reported human rabies cases between 2005 and 2022, and a 75% decline in estimated cases between 2003 and 2023—this hard-won progress is now perilously threatened. The threat does not come from the free-living … Continue reading The Dangerous Illusion of the ‘Quick Fix’: Why Mass Dog Relocation is an Ecological and Ethical Disaster for India
What if my dog does not love me?
I was once posed a probing question: What should we do if our dogs do not love us enough? This query immediately took me back to a conversation I shared with my late husband, Uttam. I remember looking at Nishi and Cheeru, soundly sleeping, and asking Uttam, “What do you think love is? How would … Continue reading What if my dog does not love me?
Dude’s journey with fear and what it taught me
Do our “captive or pet dogs” have the opportunity to have such relationships with fear? I often find that the bar is a little high high for them.
