Sheeba came to us on a Friday and a week later she was no more. She was a beautiful German Shepherd. Brown and black she must have been majestic when in good health. Hopefully she must also have been the recipient of a lot of love (This may be wishful thinking for I like to imagine that the world is a nice place). To begin I must go back to the day when I first saw her....

Holi is beyond doubt one of the most awaited for and popular festivals of our country. But at previous Holi an incident occurred which has left a permanent impression on my mind and surely not a happy one. Seeing people burn logs of wood at Holi is a normal sight (though a practice I personally detest because huge green trees are cut down), but burning of live donkeys is, I am sure, not. Yes, that is what happened
the previous Holi....

There was a cow in "Loha Mandi" area (an industrial market of Agra) which was in a pitiful condition. Most of the cows actually belong to someone or the other, that is, they belong to them till such time as they are capable of giving milk. The moment they become old and incapable of doing so, they are left on the streets to die a slow death due to starvation. This cow too had been abandoned by it's owner not because it had become old but because someone had thrown acid on it's hind area....

Bandit was first noticed by a PFA Agra employee when he was on call for another complaint. While passing a heap of rubbish a movement in it caught his eye. What he mistook to be a bundle of dirty white cloth was in reality a small black and white dog of indeterminable breed....

One evening on 13th January 2002, we got a frantic call from the Air Force Base at Agra. A huge python had been sighted exactly opposite the nursery school in the Base. The school would be opening the next day after vacations. Could we do something about it...?