Animal Welfare

Counting Tigers, Discounting Victims of Tiger Attacks

When people die in tiger attacks in the Sundarbans, the humane response would be to compensate their families. Instead, we see an opaque bureaucracy splitting hairs to deny justice to some of the…
▶30-Oct-2023
Megnaa Mehtta

Talking Elephants into Slavery

The vocabularies used to describe temple elephants in Kerala as majestic and sacred animals erase their natural histories and the brutality of their enslavement.
▶29-Jun-2022
Krishnanunni Hari

A Stray Problem

Misguided compassion towards street dogs often leads to major human-dog conflict and worsens the problem. Every action of individuals or animal welfare organisations must be carefully thought through…
▶14-Jul-2021
Neha Panchamia, Sumedh Tarde, Abi T. Vanak