Bruno poses for me Bruno is the name of the only favourite dog on my school’s campus. He has been on the campus for more years than I can trace my memory back to. Recently he posed for two snaps for me. He was so meek and obedient when I approached with my mobile phone’s camera, when the sun had already set far below the horizon, that I began to wonder who gave him the name of Bruno. The Western Christians gave the name Bruno to dogs in the olden days in order to disparage the great philosopher, mathematician, astrologer and poet of the same name who was burnt to death as a heretic by the Catholic church in the year 1600. Bruno, according to the Catholic church, was teaching things that went against the teachings of the Bible. It was Bruno who taught Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) to recant his science for the sake of religion so that he could say, “Religion teaches how to go to heaven, science teaches how the heavens go.” [I have taken a little liberty with what he act
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