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An elephant, 15 years old with a baby in her womb, died in Velliyar River near the borders of Palakkad on May 27. The animal entered the river and stood in the water for hours after it consumed the cracker-filled fruit. The cracker is believed to have exploded inside the elephant's mouth when it chewed the fruit. Guess why this pineapple was used? Reports tell that it might have been used for some other animal but the elephant came in contact, while some others tell it was used by the farmers to protect their farms. Even though it was for protection, how cruel can we humans be towards animals? This is not the first instance, animals have all the rights in the world to live just like humans. Since they can’t speak for themselves doesn’t mean that we misuse them and show our authority towards them in the form of “Animal Cruelty”. We here at writers deck have revealed few horrific instances of how we humans have treated them as cheap toys for our own use. 1...

          " hum kaha jaye is lockdown mai? jab hamare pas kuch nahi hai"                                                                                                               - Your neighborhood migrant   We all saw a recent story of a girl who traveled from gurugram to some village in Bihar covering 1200km, what did she get, an invitation from the cycle Federation, and praise from Ivanka trump. Did she purposely ride a bicycle to get this? we humans have failed the meaning of humanity, we could have helped her and her fath...

“The war against hunger is truly mankind’s war of liberation.” JohnF.Kennedy In the year 2018, A 13-year-old girl from Lakhimpur in Uttar Pradesh hanged herself after starving for more than two days – her father had passed away and her mother had found no work as a laborer. In the same week, a tribal youth in Kerala was beaten to death for stealing a kilo of rice from a grocery store. He had earlier resorted to begging and then to stealing; when  caught, he was severely beaten and later succumbed to his injuries.   “HUNGER”, the only problem in the world, which is not solved yet. Yes, hunger has been a major problem in big metropolitan cities like New York, Mumbai, and Buenos Aires etcetera. It is not that it cannot be solved, it is the ignorance of global leaders which makes it hard to eradicate. Why is hunger a major problem even during the age of technological advancements? Although the world economy as achieved its heights, about two-thirds of t...