Death by fire

[Guest guest]

Death by fire

Farzana Contractor | Thursday, April 07, 2005 13:47:14

IST

I returned from a three-day sabbatical to such awful

news and gory pictures, it made my skin crawl.

Burnt paws, scarred faces, and charred bodies. Those

of helpless animals, which may have been locked,

perhaps even chained, in cages while they burned!

Terrible. To think these are animals which belong to

the coldest regions of the world, areas which are

freezing, where there is snow and the waters, ice

cold... ironic that they should get death by fire!How

sad, how very, very sad. There is something about such

an incident that can soften even thick-skinned people.

When you think about the general helplessness of

animals, the fact that unscrupulous people exploit

them, makes you feel outraged. I am.

 

How on earth were these animals - snow dogs, Eskimo

cats, sea lions, etc., allowed into the country?

And then traipsed through hot and hostile India.

Surely we don't have adequate travel arrangements for

such sensitive creatures! I believe people like Maneka

Gandhi, Anuradha Sawhney, and Col J. C. Khanna did

their best to prevent the shows from happening. To no

avail. Knowing Maneka, I am sure she would have done

her utmost and that she too failed is shocking. No,

let me explain, what I mean is it is shocking that our

country can have such corrupt officials that the

combined might of these concerned people, all powerful

enough in their own right, could not succeed. Imagine

their cheek to invite Maneka to inaugurate the Kolkata

show! Without doubt, they must have singed at her

wrath and response. This tragedy has made me change

the way I look at circuses. No, we can do without

them. At least we can do without wild animals that

belong in the wilderness, performing. It is demeaning

for them. I am sure if they could talk they would have

told us as much. Recently I was in Toronto. And I was

lucky the Cirque du Soleil, the famous circus of

Montreal, was in town. It was fascinating. The

performances, the clothes, the music, the various

themes. There were jokers, there were the acrobats,

there were funny tricks and what have you, but there

were no big or wild animals - yet it was the best

circus I had ever witnessed. I guess around the world

things are achanging, it is only when they look

eastwards that funny ideas get into crooked minds.

 

Fact is our system stinks. It is so shameful we live

in that part of the world where anything can be bought

for a price. That this blasted Russian State Circus

could get its way using a loophole, that this circus

was a foreign one and as such the rules didn't apply

to them, and only to Indian animals, is a joke. Seems

our courts have turned into a circus!

 

Farzana Contractor is the CEO of this newspaper and

the editor of UpperCrust.

 

 

 

GREATNESS OF NATION AND ITS MORAL PROGRESS

CAN BE JUDGED BY THE WAY ITS ANIMALS ARE TREATED- M.K GANDHI.

STOP HUMAN AND ANIMAL SUFFERING - GO VEGAN

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do

something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

Helen Keller 1880 - 1968

 

Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.

[Guest guest]

I have forwarded this article to various animals rights organization hoping

that they may be able to do something about this terrible issue.