It may sound like socialism to say
we should treat horses like human beings,
especially when one of them happens to be a human being.
When we jump guiltily off a rickshaw,
and then feel sorry we’ve deprived the poor man of his
livelihood
and finally tip him out of pity-
in all three cases we’re a trial to him, and he has to endure
us.
It is only when we haggle over the fare
that we approach equality.
Come, you engineers of the twenty-first century,
let’s invent a cycle-rickshaw in which
the passenger and horse can sit side by side
and just go for a spin.
And what good will this do, you may ask?
Well, if there’s a disagreement between you and the horse,
at least he won’t have to turn round and get a crick in his
neck.
(Raghuvir Sahay)
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