Street Dogs and the Right to Exist: Sastry Speaks on Supreme Court & Streeties

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The Great Indian Streeties — Our True Citizens

Ah, the Supreme Court has spoken again about our beloved Indian street dogs — or as I like to call them, the real guardians of democracy.

Think about it — these streeties don’t pay taxes, don’t stand in election queues, and don’t waste their time forwarding WhatsApp “breaking news.” Yet, their claim to this land is far older, far purer, and far more natural than ours.

We, humans, are mere tenants.

With our concrete jungles, noise, and pollution, we keep renewing our messy lease on Earth.

The streeties? They never signed any agreement — because this planet, this soil, this sky, was theirs to begin with.

And perhaps, more than us, they live in true harmony.

They don’t hoard.

They don’t fake smiles.

They don’t file PILs.

They just exist — with loyalty, wagging tails, and eyes that see straight into your soul.

So when courts debate their “rights,” I chuckle.

Rights? My dear friends, they have more right to be here than we do.

If at all, it is we humans who should be petitioning — pleading for a little more tolerance from these noble beings who patiently watch our drama from street corners.

Perhaps one day, we’ll realize — the true measure of a society is not in how it treats its billion-dollar start-ups, but how it treats the little puppy sleeping under its street lamp.

And that day, my dear readers, we will know who really belongs here.

— Sastry, from the Mantapa