Dr Marwah Speaks - Let Us be Humane to Animals
It may not strike many readers, but it is a fact that the animal world deserves much better treatment by human kind, than what they are getting today. The nation observes the animal welfare fortnight from jan 14 to jan 30 every year with much fanfare. Just think about such days or weeks that are observed under some pretext or the other. Mother's day, Father's day, Friendship day, Wild life week, The World day for animals etc. These days undoubtedly have their significance but does that mean we care for these individuals only on these days and treat them with sheer contempt, the rest of the year! Why do we then neglect the animal world and treat them with such cruelty and indifference that laws have to be enforced? Are we so insensitive to the suffering of these mute animals that we cannot overcome our greed? It is beyond the text of this article to narrate the cruelties man has been inflicting on animals, but I would like to highlight a few of them; just a fraction of what is h