Prabal Garg

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

This is utterly brilliantly expressed. & deeply sensible. 👌🏼👏🏼

[Vidit Sharma 🇮🇳 @TheViditsharma]

A video is going viral where someone is seen slapping a guard over the relocation of a dog. Watching it honestly feels upsetting not just because of what happened, but because of how quickly anger turns into violence.

Maybe my opinion doesn’t carry much weight, and I’m definitely not a social reformer or anything just someone who cares about animals and people both. But one thing feels very clear: violence, humiliation, and abuse are never the solution.

The guard in the video looks like someone simply doing his job, likely following instructions from an employer. Targeting a worker on the ground doesn’t fix the system behind the decision. If there’s disagreement, the conversation should be with the authorities or decision-makers not with someone who may have had no real choice.

At the same time, we also need to accept a hard truth: the stray dog population in many areas is growing, and that does create tension and conflict. But relocation alone has never been a lasting solution. Sterilization and vaccination at a large, consistent scale is the only humane and effective way forward. That’s what actually reduces population over time and prevents future suffering for animals and humans.

When we publicly shame or hit someone, we don’t solve a problem we just create more anger, more division, and more noise. And in all this chaos, the real issue gets buried.

There’s already so much hostility directed toward these voiceless animals. Let’s not add more hate to an already heavy situation. If we truly want change, it has to come through awareness, policy, compassion, and persistent community effort.

Work for animals, yes. Speak up, yes. But with empathy. Because people learn better from kindness than from fear.

Let’s choose calm conversations over raised hands. Compassion over conflict. Solutions over outrage.

[Kalam Center @KalamCenter]

It has been 67 years since she left Earth…
yet her story still weighs on the human conscience like an unanswered prayer.

Laika was not just a dog sent into space.
She was trust wrapped in fur.
A quiet heartbeat that believed humans would keep her safe—
because that is what dogs do.
They believe. Even when they shouldn’t.

Her real name was Kudryavka — “curly.”
A nameless stray from the frozen streets of Moscow.
No home.
No warmth.
No voice in her own fate.

She wasn’t chosen because she was special.
She was chosen because she was obedient,
because she stayed calm,
because she endured pain without protest.
As if suffering itself became her qualification.

On November 3, 1957, she was sealed inside Sputnik 2.
The capsule had food.
It had water.
It had soft walls to cushion her body.

But it had no return plan.
No mercy.
No promise.
No way home.

She didn’t know she was going to die.
She didn’t know what space was.
She didn’t know the world was watching.

Some say she lived a few hours.
Some say a few days.
But what we know for certain is this—

Her final moments were spent alone.
Orbiting a planet she could never touch again.
Surrounded by heat, fear, and silence.

Below her, humans celebrated progress.
Above them, she suffered quietly—
a victory built on a life that never consented.

Laika circled Earth 2,570 times.
A small body carrying the unbearable weight of human ambition.

Months later, her capsule burned during re-entry,
and she vanished into the same fire that turned her into history.

Laika never chose to be a pioneer.
She never asked to be remembered.
She never understood science, politics, or glory.

She only trusted.

And in that trust, she became the first living being
to cross the space between Earth and the stars.

Today, we do not remember her with pride alone.
We remember her with gratitude.
With regret.
With a quiet ache that never fully heals.

Because progress without compassion leaves scars.
And some of the bravest hearts do not roar.

They beat softly.
They wait patiently.
They love without condition.

And sometimes—
they change the world forever…
without ever coming home.

#Laika #NeverForgotten #SpaceHistory #SilentHero #Courage #Sacrifice #HumanityAndScience #Gratitude #Guilt #StarsWithAHeartbeat

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

Last week, a 35-year-old male died in my ER because he did everything "wrong" after a snake bite. He followed "movie logic" instead of medical reality.

Here is everything you should know about snake bites and exactly what to do to stay alive. 🧵

[Kaveri Rana | Dog Rescue India @TheDogMother_]

People call them “dirty” or “dangerous,” but they never see the truth.

#Straydogs wake up every day to survival mode.
They dodge speeding vehicles.
They sleep hungry.
They endure beatings, stones, kicks—simply for existing.
They fall sick with no doctor to run to.
They face scorching heat, freezing nights, relocation, abandonment… and still wag their tails when shown a little kindness.

No home.
No safety.
No voice.

Yet somehow, they are blamed for the cruelty inflicted on them.

If surviving unimaginable hardship makes them “dangerous,” then maybe the real danger lies in our lack of empathy. 💔🐾

#SaveIndianDogs
#NoDogsNoVote
#dogsofindia
#kindness

@TheRock @TheJohnAbraham @JohnCena @rickygervais

[Gauri Maulekhi @gauri_maulekhi]

Numbers don’t lie: 15.46 lakh educational institutions alone, 1.55 crore dogs, 77k+ shelters, ₹62 cr/day just for food. We need ABC 2023, not an impossible sheltering mandate.

This was just schools/colleges. Shall we talk about hospitals, railway stations and bus stops now ?

[MG 🇮🇳 @mgnayak5]

Proud of our Army 💪

*A Heartwarming Story From Indian Army*

One Grizzly Bear (Himalayan Brown Bear) family used to visit us at xxxx post in Siachen. Initially, only during nights.

We started keeping food for the family.
Their confidence in us developed over a period, and they even started coming during day.

There was also a bear cub about an year old. It used to come with his mother, but after about 6 months, it was either deserted by the mother or got lost. Then it started roaming alone, but it had problems, since the dogs in the post wouldn't let it come close.

When we saw this, we started tying the dogs. The confidence grew and it started to come close.

We named him Bahadur after the Company's name- Bahadur Company.

For a few days, we couldn't see Bahadur. One day, one of my posts, which used get cut off due to 60 feet of snow, reported that Bahadur is roaming around with his head stuck in a tin box.

This post was about 800 metres from my Company Headquarter.

I took 6 boys with me and went to rescue the bear myself. It's not that I wasn't concerned about boys safety; but I still decided to do the rescue.

When we reached the place, the bear was roaming with the tin box around its head, over a cornice probably without food for last 3 days. It was making circles on the cornice. _(Cornice - An overhanging mass of hardened snow at the edge of a mountain precipice.)_

Basically, cornice is a false extension of ground made by hard snow over a period of time, and it can't take too much weight.
It can break off and can lead to an Avalanche.

So, it was very difficult to go closer to the bear to rescue it.

I found the lightest boy from my group and briefed him to go close to the bear and tie the rope around his neck.

We also tied a rope to the waist also to pull him in case the cornice breaks down.

This boy was nervous to get close to the bear.

After about over 3 mins, I decided to rescue the bear on my own.

The bear was approached by me on my knees and I pulled him out of the cornice as quickly as possible to avoid breaking off the cornice.

After bringing the bear to safety, we tied it with ropes to take it to our xxxx post, where we could release him after removing the tin box.

It took almost a kind of surgery to cut the tin box without damaging the ears and neck of the bear.

We gave him food and released him after taking all safety precautions. When we released him, he didn't go away for a good 3 hours.

But after that it became part of my Company.

Whenever we shouted his name -Bahadur, it always appeared from nowhere.

It still comes to the post for food.

Although the Story is very Heartwarming, please do also take a moment to appreciate the very difficult conditions and the environment the Indian Army is guarding our Borders. Furthermore, do also see and acknowledge the accommodation they are staying with bare minimum amenities. It takes a special kind of men to do this.

A big Salute to the Soldiers of the Indian Army. Jai Hind!

Some videos👇🏼

[Dr. Asher R. Jesudoss @JesudossAsher]

If the school had a dog in the premises, it would have been in the frontline and would have either chased the animal away or at least shielded the children from the bite.

This is precisely why vaccinated community dogs are important. When you remove vaccinated and sterilized dogs from your neighborhood, you make yourself vulnerable to attacks from other unfamiliar animals who can't practically be vaccinated.

Bite and rabies instances will only increase in the absence of vaccinated, sterilized community dogs that are treated humanely by the entire community.

Vaccination and sterilization is therefore the only practical, logical, legal, scientific and compassionate solution.

#SaveIndianDogs

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

I found this boy on the streets of Delhi, India yesterday.

It was a very late night but we saved his life.

His rescue deeply moved me… (1/8) 🧵

[Ramanuj Mukherjee @law_ninja]

If you remove all visible dogs from an area without sterilising and vaccinating them, new unsterilised dogs migrate in (from neighbouring areas). Within months, numbers rise again.

You achieve nothing but cause massive pain, chaos and suffering.

Also, somehow if you stop the dogs physically from coming in, this leads to exponential growth in rodents. Every plague in India has been preceded by culling of street dogs (that time judges and admin were not politically correct enough to couch the truth as “shelter”).

This is why you want to involve people who work with animals all their lives before making these policy decisions.

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

https://t.co/OLsDf9jTW4

[Raza Kazmi @RazaKazmi17]

Today is the 98th birthday of Jagat Jyoti Dutta, perhaps the oldest IFS officer alive & among the finest wildlife managers India has ever produced. Born in 1926, he is a living witness to the changing history of forest & wildlife management. As one +

(Video by @nishant2108 )

[Shivraj Singh Chouhan @ChouhanShivraj]

Deeply disturbed by the horrifying incident. Swift and strict action will be taken to ensure justice is served. We unequivocally condemn such acts of barbarism, and the individual responsible will face the consequences.

[DC_Dumka @DumkaDc]

#विश्व_पर्यावरण_दिवस के अवसर पर वन विभाग एवं एसएसबी के साथ आयोजित वृक्षारोपण कार्यक्रम में पौधरोपण किया गया। प्रकृति के प्रति अपने कर्तव्य का निर्वहन करते हुए पर्यावरण की सुरक्षा एवं संरक्षण के लिए #मिशन_लाइफ के अंतर्गत जिले में विभिन्न कार्यक्रमों का आयोजन किया जा रहा है।

[State Library Dumka @library_dumka]

Welcome to the 2nd Dumka state library literature festival
@speakingtiger14 @PenguinIndia @HarperCollinsIN @niyogibooks @seagullbooks @walkngbookfairs @akshayabahibala @WestlandBooks @DumkaDc

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | In an operation in Kokernag, Anantnag, Army's dog 'Zoom' attacked terrorists & received 2 gunshot injuries. In spite of that, he continued his task which resulted in neutralisation of 2 terrorists. The canine is under treatment in Srinagar, J&K.

(Source: Chinar Corps)

[JSLPS Jharkhand @onlineJSLPS]

दुमका ज़िला में #जोहार_परियोजना अंतर्गत उत्पादक कंपनी के तृतीय वार्षिक आमसभा का किया गया आयोजन।

कार्यक्रम के मुख्य अतिथि @DumkaDc ने कंपनी के कार्य की सराहना की एवं ज्यादा से ज्यादा उत्पादक समूह की दीदियों को व्यापार केंद्रित गतिविधि से जुड़ने हेतु मार्गदर्शन दिया।
@JharkhandCMO

[Prabal Garg @prabalgarg5]

@Ravibabu4uRAVI धन्यवाद @Ravibabu4uRAVI @SouravSonthali8 🙏🙏

[Sourav Sonthalia @SouravSonthali8]

मसलिया के बाबूलाल मुर्मू के दो बच्चे थैलेसीमिया से पीड़ित है।इन बच्चों को प्रशिक्षु अधिकारी प्रबल गर्ग IFS एवम थाना प्रभारी (दुमका नगर)नीतीश कुमार जी ने रक्त देकर सहयोग किया।आपदोनो को साधुवाद
@BasantSorenMLA @JharkhandPolice
@JharkhandCMO
@DumkaDc @forestservice
@DEFCCOfficial

[Raza Kazmi @RazaKazmi17]

Excellent piece. One correction, there's a lone sanctuary dedicated to wolf preservation in India – Mahuadanr (Jharkhand), notified way back in1976 because one IFS officer, S.P. Shahi, realized as early as the 1960s that amidst the focus on tigers, wolves were quietly vanishing.+