A Sudden Order to Round Up Delhi’s Street Dogs Is Dividing India
A court order to sterilize and shelter Delhi’s strays has become a test of governance, compassion and the future of India’s megacities.
A stray dog at the Kartavya Path near India Gate in New Delhi on Aug. 12.
Photographer: Arun Sankar/AFP
Reeti Sahai doesn’t hesitate when asked how many dogs she feeds every day in and around New Delhi: approximately 50.
There are the dogs that live outside around her office and the ones roaming her neighborhood. There are those that trot alongside her during marathon-training runs, often for miles at a time — “my security,” she calls them. And then at home there are her two pets, Cookie and Cooper.