The most striking resistance came from India’s classrooms. In the first 24 hours, over 800 schools and colleges formally rejected the idea that their campus dogs should be taken away. Students protested, teachers objected and principals wrote with remarkable clarity that their dogs are sterilised, vaccinated, peaceful, and part of the campus family

xIn the past weeks, India has been thrown into deep confusion because of the way in which recent Supreme Court directions are being executed. The apex court may have intended to find a solution to reduce the stray dog population and reduce dog bites. But what emerged is a direction so unscientific, irrational and practically unimplementable and so detached from reality that even the State machinery has no roadmap to follow.

The most striking r

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