Gursharan Singh wrote over two hundred drama scripts. Many of these were original plays, others were based on short stories, novels and even poems from contemporary writings. In 2010-11, writer and artistic director, Kewal Dhaliwal, published seven volumes of Gursharan Singh’s collected plays and released them in Chandigarh in the presence of Gursharan Singh. We discovered a few more scripts after the publication of these seven volumes. These will be brought out in another volume in the coming year. The seven volumes are being added with much gratitude to Kewal Dhaliwal, who is also a member of the Trust.
Veterinary science has long been celebrated for its miracles—joint replacements, chemotherapy for a golden retriever, a pacemaker for a Maine Coon cat. Yet, the true frontier of modern vet medicine isn’t a new laser or a wonder drug. It is the ancient, flickering language of the tail, the ear, the whale’s song, and the lizard’s stillness.
The solution? Teaching a parrot to present its foot for a blood draw. Training a gorilla to hold still for an ultrasound without anesthesia. Clicker-training a dairy cow to enter a crush without fear. This isn’t circus trickery; it is applied behavioral science. And it yields better medicine. The Elephant Who Felt Her Leg No story captures this fusion better than that of Mala, a 45-year-old Asian elephant in a sanctuary. Keepers noticed she had begun shifting her weight constantly. The veterinary team suspected arthritis, but X-rays required her to stand still—which she refused to do. Sedation in an elephant is high-risk (their physiology does not forgive respiratory depression). relatos de zoofilia
When a frightened cat is scruffed (held by the neck) or restrained in a carrier, its heart rate spikes to 220 beats per minute. Cortisol floods its system. In this state, pain perception changes, the immune system dips, and diagnostic tests (like blood pressure or heart rate) become useless. The behaviorist asks, “Why is the cat hiding?” The veterinary scientist answers, “Because its liver is failing.” But without the behaviorist’s insight, the scientist can’t get close enough to treat the liver. Veterinary science has long been celebrated for its
We are witnessing a quiet revolution: the fusion of the ethologist (the student of behavior) with the clinician (the student of disease). Because here is the uncomfortable truth a scalpel cannot fix: The Hiding Cat Paradox Consider the domestic cat. An evolutionary marvel of stealth, designed to hide pain until it is nearly too late. For decades, veterinary textbooks described feline behavior as “aloof” or “difficult.” But the new paradigm—dubbed “feline-friendly” or “low-stress” handling—understands that the cat isn’t difficult; it is prey that happens to also be a predator. The solution