My dignified rants - Vijay Ramalingam

The 'Rat race' and compassion towards animals An old post of mine from October 13, 2014 Happened to witness a gruesome incident yesterday evening at the ECR near Mahabalipuram. I was traveling in an MTC bus to Mahabalipuram and I had occupied one of the the window seats. As the bus crossed Vada nemmeli, suddenly some of my co passengers were shouting to look at the right side of the road. An adult dog which was standing on the right side of the road (not in the middle of the road exactly) had just been hit by some vehicle ( I failed to notice the vehicle that hit it , it could have been a lorry or a car that was speeding on the opp side at that moment) and the dog's right eye had popped outside and was dangling on its face and the dog was screaming in pain and mortal agony, and then I noticed that its lower body (hind portion) had been severely crushed / damaged and the dog fell down dead. All this (my witnessing of the happenings) happened in just a co