Meghna Bal

Happy to share my research article on piracy monetisation models and industrial pathways on Telegram, published in Contemporary South Asia, a @tandfonline journal, for a special issue on Locating Digital Cultural and Creative Industries in India tandfonline.com/eprint/CY42XWY…

@sanjay_saigal @ShekharGupta @SagrikaKissu @TheLancet why are they laughably unreal? and why are you deflecting from the real issues at hand - also rabies can be caused by any mammal - including rats - no granularity on this front either

@BalMeghna @ShekharGupta @SagrikaKissu @TheLancet Policy concerns may be quite real. But the source report uses laughably unreal govt figures, and the article repeats them uncritically. Recognizing that chain of errors is key to an informed debate.

91% of Indians report feeling safer because of street dogs, says new survey Sagrika Kissu @SagrikaKissu writes #ThePrintEssential theprint.in/theprint-essen…

@sanjay_saigal @ShekharGupta @SagrikaKissu @TheLancet We are calling for humane, science-backed reduction of numbers - ABC works wherever it is implemented - where has all the money allocated for it over the years gone? why no accountability?

@BalMeghna @ShekharGupta @SagrikaKissu @TheLancet The real problem isn’t even selective focus by advocates. It’s when a journalist relays an obviously misleading figure w/o examining the analytic gulf it floats in. That abdication of journalistic dharma is what turns a 100× discrepancy into a headline rather than a question.

@sanjay_saigal @ShekharGupta @SagrikaKissu @TheLancet It wasn't selective focus - the govt cited some random figures in court when its own figures said this - And to has consistently neglected implementing ABC and ARV which you seem to be conveniently forgetting - this is the only headline

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India doesn’t have a stray dog problem — it has a governance problem. 20 years of failed ABC, corruption, zero oversight & policy chaos created this crisis. The solution isn’t hate. It’s science: 70%+ sterilisation & vaccination. #StrayDogs #ABC #AnimalWelfare

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these bears are a level above endangered - how does shooting them on sight make sense - surely there are smarter, more effective ways to manage this conflict

no country for any animals aside from humans it seems - the appalling onslaught continues downtoearth.org.in/climate-change…

God bless you all.

This is the best 90-second story you’ll see all week An 1,800-pound walrus named Wally got lost, drifted 2,500 miles from the Arctic, and started napping on random boats in Ireland… sinking a few of them People panicked, then someone built him his own floating couch so he’d leave everyone’s yachts alone. 22 days later he casually swam home to Iceland like nothing had happened.

Well done New Zealand, Britain urgently needs to do the same

Thank you @PeepalFarm for this video of #Gukesh the Champ. It shows high IQ + EQ to be kind and empathetic towards animals.

All doctors who arent public health experts, please go through the data available and then comment. And if any public health expert can comment and guide, it will be great. Mass vaccination programmes for canines are the best way to curtail rabies. Neutering to reduce population

One of the lesser known facts is that caregivers - mainly young girls are getting battered .. for feeding dogs. Ignorant fools don’t even know that feeding serves a very important purpose #SaveIndianWomen #IndianWomensRights

Dog haters can’t teach kindness or decency because they don’t practice either. That’s why they neither adopt nor help humans. Their true enemy isn’t dogs. It’s compassion because it exposes the emptiness inside them. #SaveIndianDogs twitter.com/HoomanDecoder/…

Who would you feel safer walking with at 10 pm in the night ?

@veenavenugopal still there

Only the Print carried the Congress's press conference about Hiren Joshi. And...it looks like they have taken it down.

Dogs are born guardians. Thats their nature..to protect. Why are humans bent on making them villains?? #GAF4AnimalWelfare @GoaAnimalfedn @PrakashWKamatPK @ShrijeetNair06 @PoromaMunshi @GoaHumaneTrust @DSPCANorthGoa

@VishalBhargava5 asking for this is not "berating the data" - bite incidence is very high in countries/places with very low stray dog populations - so it would be good to have nuance here as well is the point we are making

@BalMeghna Where is the nuance? For a data point that runs adverse to your narrative-peddling, you highlight two tricks to berate the data 1) Sanctity of data 2) Segmentation of dog-bites

community notes show fallibility - this is not true - we have covered dog bites in our report - screenshot below :) we asked for nuance, we did not ignore the situation

In Nabadwip West Bengal, a pack of stray dogs guarded an abandoned newborn and saved its life. If all strays are as ‘aggressive’ as dog haters claim, how did this happen? Think! who’s the demon here? The humans who abandoned the baby, or the dogs who protected it? #saveindiandogs