Anurag Acharya

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, UCSB

2121 Engineering I, acha@cs.ucsb.edu

PhD, Carnegie Mellon. B.Tech, IIT Kharagpur.

How could you? - Essay by Jim Willis. Dogs, what more can I say?

The Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Angel Canyon, Utah.

This is the largest sanctuary in the US for abused and abandoned cats and dogs and other animals.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - please please read

Heaven knows - a parable (thanks to SandyJ for forwarding this to me)

Torture chamber agony of China's bears (BBC)

Thousands of bears are being kept in "torture chambers" to produce bile for the traditional Chinese medicine market, wildlife campaigners say.

Animal Friends Trust, which has just started a charitable animal hospital in Bikaner, India. This is an effort by my family.

Chechnya's forgotten victims (BBC)

"Zarema will not be mourned in the Kremlin. Moscow is already busy sweeping the horror of its campaign in Chechnya under the carpet. It was on the back of this war that Vladimir Putin rode to victory in the presidential election. The suffering and death of one young girl counts for nothing compared to that."

The Pain of Hiroshima - poem by Atal Bihari Vajpayee (prime minister of India during Pokhran-II)

Ulysses's invitation - grows closer to my heart as the years go by...