Marilyn Monroe loved dogs because they never bit her unlike the human beings. Mark Twain was of a similar opinion. “If you pick up a starving dog,” declared the witty writer, “and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.” Milan Kundera found his Eden by sitting “with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon.” Our leaders of the most powerful political party today seem to hold dogs in a slightly different regard. A few months back our Prime Minister declared his love for puppies when he made a subtle equation between them and the victims of communal riots belonging to a particular community. Now General V K Singh, union minister and former army chief, thinks that the Dalits share some genes with the canines. The dogs are very friendly creatures which are unpolitically selfless. They earned a bad name in India, however, because their general (not to be confused with...
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