India: As Commonwealth Games Approach, Delhi Targets Its Donkeys

GlobalPost:

NEW DELHI, India -- At the impromptu stables near Jawarhalal Nehru Marg, on the outskirts of Old Delhi -- the Indian capital's 400-year-old core -- a group of men in salwar kameez and skullcaps are seated cross-legged in the straw playing cards. A line of stubby-legged ponies and donkeys stretches along the stone wall. The animals ruminate placidly as cars, trucks and auto-rickshaws, horns blaring, race past on the adjacent road.

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Comments

[deluk]

"Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its donkeys -- the last, the least, the littlest."" (paraphrase-Churchill, Truman, Cardinal Mahoney)

[imperio]

They also need to target their cows and bulls; they are everywhere in India and create a lot of mess.

[Pem3]

Progress at the cost of others only is progress to those that are not losing everything. Really have to feel for the people what will they gain hopefully something it does not seem like it though.