ELEPHANTS FOR DELHI PARTIES NOW

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Dear All,

 

I have just read and signed the petition: " SOS: Elephants are

not 'Party Animals' "

 

Please take a moment to read about this important issue, and join me

in signing the petition. It takes just 30 seconds, but can truly make

a difference. Please sign here:

 

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/464562377

 

Also forward it to as many people as one can.

 

Thanks!

 

Azam Siddiqui

 

 

aapn , " "

wrote:

>

> POSTED WITH PERMISSION.

>

> It is distressing and shocking that now the Embassies and

Consulates have

> taken to the thrill of degrading and mocking the miserable captive

elephants

> in the Capital.

>

> Please write to the French Consulate and Embassy at mail ids given

below,

> that animal lovers are watching and are shocked at the insensitivity

> of senior officials to the plight of captive elephants, designated

as wild

> animals by the law, in India.

>

> Suparna Baksi-Ganguly

> Co-founder & Trustee

> CUPA & WRRC

>

> On 12/12/06, Sunayana Ganguly

> sunayana.ganguly<sunayana.ganguly%3E>wrote:

>

> * 9th December,Saturday, 2006: 18 Rajdoot Marg, Chanakyapuri,

Delhi.*

> *

>

> * The new french consul Philippe Martinet and his wife, Benedicte

> Alliot, welcomed their

> guests into their new house with a *live pink elephant*.

> The elephant, standing in the narrow driveway of their new house,

stood for

> more than

> four hours without water or feeding with his mahout perched on his

> head using his hooked stick to keep the animal from moving. The

> elephant and mahout waited with similar glassy expressions and

drained

> eyes while the glittering guests wound their way into a manicured

lawn

> to an open bar, loud dj's urging guests to the dance floor.

>

> In the open driveway, the elephant swayed morosely, while the

unnatural pink

> dripped

> off it and tears from its eyes. Trapped by the noise and clamour of

a

> diplomat's party, the

> avante garde decor of the party designed by Himanshu Verma was

> offset by the medeival cruelty of an elephant chained to

circumstance

> and seemed to epitomise the violence of stereotyping orientalism,

even

> as two countries try to carve a future governed by the principles

of

> progress and modernity.

>

> Himanshu Verma - cell no: 9818210894

>

> French Embassy

> 2/50E Shantipath, Chanakyapuri

> New Delhi 110021

> Tel: 011 6118790 Fax: 011 6872305

> Email: consdelhi

>

> French Consulate

> Dattaprasad Building

> Naoroji Gamadia Cross Road

> Mumbai 400026

> Tel : 022 4950918 Fax: 022 4950318

> Email: consufra

>

>

>