Who doesn't love dogs?
I have been travelling a lot since i quit my job. I was supposed to travel to Bangalore last Monday. I got up early and was waiting for my friend in front of a park. Sipping tea with a pack of Parle-G biscuits has always been my favorite to start my day. I was thoroughly enjoying my tea with biscuits at 6:30 in the morning in a road side tea shop. A dog chasing the smell of biscuits, came towards me. He was waging its tail and the communication was clear to me. He was asking a share in biscuits. I wanted to test what he will do if i just ignore him and continue eating biscuits. I think Dogs are much better at reading human body language than we are. May be he understood that am just acting. He neither showed any anger nor turned his back. He was as polite as possible. I bought one more biscuit pack but didn't show any sign of sharing second time either. I finished second pack within no time. It was watching all the way but he didn't show single sign of disappoint. I was impressed with his attitude.
Chaiwala was watching our act and told me "Sir, you make him wait how much ever you want, but he won't be disappointed. When he initially came to my shop, he was a puppy. I wanted to get rid of him as he was disturbing my customers. I tried everything, but he was always coming back in the morning. One day, i left shop with no one inside to bring water from near by bore well. While coming back i saw him barking at cows who were trying to enter my shop. I never gave anything to him, but still he was showing his part of loyalty towards me. I felt ashamed at myself. Later he became part of our family. Our customers love him a lot. He has grown a lot since then.".
I bought one more biscuit pack and fed the dog by throwing one biscuit at a time. He too enjoyed his early morning breakfast. I left the place and took a bus to Bangalore. Someone next to my seat was holding almost all available news paper in the town. He must be a paper seller or a politician. I borrowed one Kannada news paper and started glancing each page. There was an article on opposition party agitating against central minister's dog remarks towards Dalits during ongoing winter session in our parliament.This is interesting. What dogs have anything to do in our parliment? No, they haven't. But our parliamentarians have deliberately brought the topic on dogs and wasted precious parliament session hours for several days.
"If somebody throws a stone at a dog, then you say the government is responsible. It is not like that," said Mr. Singh, in a statement which had led to the Opposition demanding his resignation. Anyone who know English basics can clearly understand his statements. What he meant was to never associate local incidents with the Central government. Our so called intellectual media took the matter into their hands and started twisting the facts for TRP. Anyways, thats not my point. If the minister has really compared Dalits to dogs, then the dogs should protest against the remarks not humans. At this point, in my view, no animal on our earth would like to be compared to humans. We have reached down to such low level of morality. If i would be in parliament, i would blame the remarks and give support to dogs.
Dogs have set an finest example to us on how to live and let live. They are not corrupt. They are not greed. They are loyal. If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man. Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Home, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace. A biscuit to the dog is not charity. Charity is the biscuit shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. A person can learn a lot from a dog. Dogs taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh rain, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.
So if someone compare me to a dog, then that would be happiest momemt of my life.
With Love,
RaDa
