India, Jan. 20 -- Dilip Ghosh was in the news recently when he said that those opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) should be shot like dogs. It caused revulsion all over the country. Many thought that his career as President of the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was sealed. What he said was reprehensible not only from a human point of view but also from a canine point of view.
Let's leave the human aspect for a while. Why did he use the metaphor of the dogs? Did he think that dogs were meant to be shot? Did he know the story of a dog who accompanied Yudhishthira, the eldest son of King Pandu and Queen Kunti and the king of Indraprastha and, later, of Hastinapura? He was the leader of the successful Pandava si...