Maneka Sanjay Gandhi

The day that the COVID testing team (I have no idea where they came from. There are so many astronaut like creatures floating about from so many different departments, governments, hospitals, testing centres, that I stopped wondering a long time ago and now just meekly submit to sticks being poked into my nose and throat, and blood taken) declared I had the virus, my thoughts went immediately to death. So many people I know have died. Two died when I was on the phone trying to get oxygen for them. Another was admitted by me into hospital after begging the owner. Every morning a person I know turns into a memory.

Maneka Sanjay Gandhi

Islam is not a primitive culture and spirituality. It is the culture of Islam that has led to many of the advancements in human knowledge, that are now synonymous with civilization itself. In India it is the Muslims that have kept the arts and crafts alive, and the language, Urdu, is the most gentle, mellifluous, cultured means of communication.

But at the end of the day it is Eid, and the barbarism of that day, that mould popular opinion that Islam is a culture/religion of violence, a people who define themselves by the eating of other beings, impossible to communicate with, illiterate and permanently angry.

Maneka Sanjay Gandhi

Some months ago Anoushka, Abhishek, Sarthak, Garvita and Rishabh wrote to me from Thapar Institute and Technology, Patiala college in Patiala, requesting guidance with an animal welfare group they had started on the campus called Puppers Helpers Tiet.

This  gave me a new idea – of starting animal welfare groups in every college campus. So we put yet another Anushka, who came to me as a legal intern, in charge of this. If any of you would like to start a group you can contact her at  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. She already has 30 college units, and my target is 50,000.