The legal persecution toward these voiceless beings has caused immense heartbreak but also caused us to question how ‘just’ this system really is.

For centuries they have lived and coexisted with us—guarding our streets, scavenging waste, forming the pulse of our neighborhoods’ daily rhythm. Yet today, these voiceless indie’s are being trapped under the cage of politics. Punished for merelyexisting in the only homes they have ever known. The legal persecution toward these voiceless companions has not only caused immense heartbreak, but has forced us to question how ‘just’ our system truly is.

The recent rulings that permit or encourage their culling are not justice—they are betrayal. Betrayal of the Constitution that equals compassion to duty. Betrayal of the Animal Birth Control Rules that mandate humane management. Betrayal of the very idea of independence, where the strong protect the weak instead of exterminating them. 

This ruling does not solve the problem—it worsens it. Research and experience tells us that killing dogs creates a vacuum effect, where new, unvaccinated and unsterilized dogs refill that space. That often creates and escalates new tensions, aggressions and can create more human-dog upheaval. It escalating the very fears we claim to address. It diverts money, attention, and manpower away from real crises in the place we call home. We should be enraged, if not for the lives of the innocent then selfishly for ours. The opportunity cost to this “problem” is treating real immediate issues. Pollution, unsafe roads and crimes against women plague Delhi. Instead of solving a real problem the government is making one up and “solving” that instead. Just so they can say they’ve been successfull. We are descending into a vicious cycle of cruelty that history and evidence have already proven ineffective.

A society that begins by devaluing animal life soon forgets the worth of human life too. The voiceless strays represent millions of human beings who do not have a voice. It sets a scary precedent, whose life is valuable and who will determine the answer. We do NOT need less dogs, we need MORE humanity.