Shameem Akthar, on the trend of keeping Rottweilers: Infamy dogs the Rottweiler. Ever since he was marked as the grim hunter in Nazi history, bred and trained to mangle Jews. But many in Mumbai are willing to overlook its shadowy past and rubbish its tags of ‘killer-machine’. The most recent to tail it is a trial. Pamela Baywatch Lee has been sued, along with her husband, by a woman claiming she was bitten by the couple’s Rottweiler at Malibu. “I could travel alone with him at night, he’s better than a fully-loaded pistol. He’s the Sean Connery of dogdom,” the star had said. http://bit.ly/1bvr44v
Savitri Choudhury, on possible genetic solutions for endangered species: Cloning extinct cheetahs and creating test-tube tigers might sound like the script of a futuristic film, but for a group of Hyderabad-based scientists it’s the real plot. They are convinced that DNA fingerprinting, creating cell and gene banks and other such cutting-edge biotechnological interventions hold the key to conservation. http://bit.ly/1HtZMHo
5 Years Ago
Aimee Ginsburg, on the Israeli entrepreneurs of Goa: It’s a sweltering mid-April morning in Anjuna, the sprawling village at the centre of the international Goan scene. Many of the ‘Israeli crowd’ (and other nationalities as well) are sitting at Artjuna, Moshe Inbar’s art gallery-showroom-cafe, the place to start the day. http://bit.ly/1FeARr9
