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Apolitical

  Original Source: https://www.jeyamohan.in/168246/ Date: 7-Jul-2022   Dear J, Someone had posted this in Facebook. Personalities in Tamil Nadu, who did a great job in preventing people like me, who were born in the 80s and had reached the mid-life stage, from getting ensnared in any party based politics are: Rajinikanth et al in Cinema, Jaggi Vasudev et al in Spirituality, Nammalvar et al in agriculture, Sundara Ramaswamy then and Jeyamohan now in literature... This is my assertion, people with different opinion - move on. What's your perspective? Anonymous   Dear friend, If its asked as to what really is my job, I would like to cite this sentence. I wouldn't place myself in the list. Still, I am certainly trying to create a circle of thinkers who are apolitical. My communication is not with the general community per se. I do not have any correspondence with them. They cannot get through to my writings. Nor do I have the inclination to reach through to them. So, I am not...

Vetri

Original Source: https://www.jeyamohan.in/193243/ Date: 10-Nov-2023 The way dogs are treated in India is a source of distress for dog lovers like me. Majority of Indian dog breeds are street dogs. Those being attacked by these street dogs are impoverished workers who return home at nights and children playing in the streets. There are animal lovers here who show sympathy towards these street dogs. They are mostly upper class citizens who seldom walk on streets. The peak of such attitude is Maneka Gandhi. What they express is not compassion or animal welfare, rather merely their ostentation. Dogs are not meant to be living on streets. Those who feed street dogs are in fact sustaining a cruelty that is street dog. We need to understand that dogs are not wild animals. They aren't naturally evolved creatures. They were created by humans from wolves and wild dogs thirty thousand years back. It can live only via sustenance from humans. Humans must provide for them. The necessity for huma...