Stripped

It's been ages since being clothed in public has been a norm among human beings in any civilized society.While various stages of undressing is welcome at appropriate places, say, beaches,strip clubs or carnivals it still remains a custom to stay clothed inside a myriad of human population.As a way of protestation, getting naked in public is something that has gained momentum in the recent years.Even then,what takes some of the celebrities of our generation to shed their cottons and chiffons in public on the pretext of certain obscure causes is something that obfuscates me.

Some celebrities make it a point to go nude in public as part of campaigns against the slaughtering of polar bears for fur.While a personal rejection of clothes made of fur on part of those who oppose the killing of ursine animals may arguably seem to justify their going in the buff, striptease by activists belonging to certain organisations ostensibly triggered by the use of chicken in burgers or sandwiches made and sold by some multinational food joints baffles me.How people could make a statement on unethical treatment of chicken by posing in the nude is something that is beyond my conviction.

Public nudity is an easy way for grabbing the attention of the media and may be they are trying to reach out to more people by doing that.But whether the message that they are supposedly spreading gets the same popularity as their nudity is another question.Supporting some causes has been in vogue since the past few years but the number of people who actually practice the same in their personal lives is questionable.At the end of the day we are left to believe that it's all part of a stunt to remain in the news for celebrities with fading mass appeal and a platform to gain fame for those lesser known activists.

Finally, for the aesthetically inclined it's a treat for the eye when they see any of their favourite celebrity women naked as a jaybird.It wouldn't take any persuasion from anyone for me to join that club.But a centrefold of a skin magazine is something that i would prefer than a nude pic with a slogan against the extinction of reindeers printed underneath it.

Going Canine

Love,like any other sentiment has multiple dimensions.Sometimes the love for something or things overrun some of the things that deserve true and uninhibited affection.The love for fellow beings is something that all species possess of which humans need not be an exception,I believe.But the kind of fondness expressed by a selected few of mankind towards certain species other than theirs leaves me flabbergasted.

It's not only that I'm cynophobic,in fact there's only a minuscule of a personal thing in it,but I don't want to picture the plight of young children who have fallen prey to the brutal antics of stray dogs.Such an assault is something that even an adult would find difficult,if not impossible,to defend,especially if it occurs while one is asleep and that too if the predators come in a pack.

In the aftermath of a series of incidents involving the most gruesome slaying of children by stray dogs, a state government in India ordered their culling, only to be met with harsh castigation from lovers of animals in the state and around.Now,I'm not too sure if a vain search for love had once forced these so-called animal-lovers of today to fall in love with carnivorous beasts,including these stray dogs.Whatever the case is,it doesn't take much to observe that almost all of them lead grandiosely luxurious lifestyles in plush bungalows and villas totally oblivious to the plight of innumerable people who live in various dimensions of absolute penury.While philanthropy takes a back seat in the minds of these loggerheads,they are preoccupied with the love for their pets.In their minds, all animals resemble their quiet,tranquil,non-violent pets.But stray dogs are far from that and it is the children of the poor that always end up at the receiving end, children who are deprived of the luxury of air conditioned cars or high walled homes that the offspring of these animal-lovers possess.I find it quite ridiculous that those who keep on shedding gallons of tears in favour of street dogs doesn't spare even a minute to think about the children who were bitten to death by them.

A successful planting of an image of love for animals, which scores in verisimilitude, in the mind of the general public always makes things easier for these non-anthrophiles.As a consequence they have, at least for the time being,succeeded in suspending the government's order to annihilate street dogs.If these people don't want street dogs to be killed then I think it's the turn of the government to ask them to take these dogs to their respective abodes after necessary vaccination.That would ease the burden on the authority to get rid of dogs and the animal-lovers can be close to their loved ones and take care of them easily.Till then both the young and the old belonging to the lower stratum of the society, whose love for human beings surpasses the one towards beasts, will continue to live in a state of morbid fear of stray dogs.