http://www.aadisht.net/blog/2014/01/31/why-hindutva-is-like-dog-breeding/
Provocative title. Boring and overly long article. I can understand the words "Dog Breeding" and here is something I wrote a year or so ago and posted in various places, but not yet on Silk IIRC CHIKKAMUNIVENKATAMMA We have a dog at home and she is called "Chi", short for Chikkamunivenkatamma. Almost exactly one year ago she put us through an interesting experience that I can never forget. For a few weeks Chi had been very hungry. She would beg for more and more food. I would feel sorry for her and feed her extra when my wife was not watching, and was quite happy to see her getting fatter and fatter. But suddenly one day late last January she became sick. She started panting and became distressed. She kept going out into the garden and digging a hole in the ground. In the house she would force open my daughter's cupboard, dig out all the clothes and sit inside the bottom chamber of the cupboard. Wondering what was happening, I consulted my uncle. My uncle is not a human being. He is called "Google" and he lives on the Internet and I talk to him through a computer. I asked Google uncle, "What is wrong with Chi?" Google uncle took less than half a second to give me 2 lakh answers and I started reading the top two or three that seemed likely. Google told me that my dog might be poisoned, or she may have a bad infection or that she had pseudo pregnancy. I decided that she had pseudo pregnancy because I knew that she was not poisoned and that she was unlikely to have any infection.I was happy to have a diagnosis. My uncle, Sri Google told me that the symptoms would soon pass. But they did not pass. Chi became very distressed and started howling in pain. I tried to calm her and see what was up - but she ran under my daughter's bed. Then she let out a howl and became quiet. To my utter surprise - I found, lying near her tail - a jet black furry ball. It was a pup - a beautiful healthy puppy about the size of a cricket ball. That was when I realized that I could never be a good dog obstetrician. I had misdiagnosed pregnancy as pseudo pregnancy! With a mixture of anxiety and joy my family and I watched with fascination over the next 36 hours - yes 36 hours, as Chi gave birth to 10 healthy beautiful puppies under a bed at home. Five were jet black and five were creamy white, all perfectly formed. Chi was the most devoted mother I have ever seen. She did not leave her puppies alone for one minute even though they nearly sucked her life out. She has only eight nipples but she had ten pups who were hungry all the time. Within one week, my family and I had to join in the feeding game giving the puppies Cerelac and vitamins. After a week we were feeding the puppies continuously. When we took them out we were very afraid that they would be attacked by cats and predatory birds in the neighborhood. We keep a close watch on them. But by four weeks the strain was beginning to show. We were caring for puppies day in and day out and the puppies were 4 times bigger and 6 times more hungry. This was the phase we started giving them away to people who wanted a pup. Chi was very philosophical. As long as there were puppies she did her job. As the numbers became smaller, she got more sleep. She did not fret or mourn. When the last pup was given away she came inside the house, licked my knee as I sat on a chair and happily curled up and went to sleep at my feet as if nothing had happened.
