Vijyanandsuri Swargarohan Shatabdi Granth

Author(s): Navinchandra Vijaymuni, Ramanlal C Shah, Shripal Jain
Publisher: Vijayanand Suri Sahitya Prakashan Foundation Pavagadh

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POULTRY FARMS OR CONCENTRATION CAMPS?
Atul Shah (Now Muni Hitruchivijayji Maharaj)
Imagine that you are peacefully sleeping in the court yard of your house in your native village. As the new day breaks, the rooster announces its arrival, wakes you up and leads you from the dark world of the night into the light of a new day. Just imagine, how beautiful and pleasant way of waking up ! Mechanisation in every sphere of our life has destroyed our natural way of living and now the younger generation have nothing but the alarm clock or the morning alarm service of telephone to wake them up. Still, in lakhs of Indian Villages, the responsibility of awakening the villagers with coming of the dawn lies on the rooster. He performs this responsibility without the 'morning alarm' bill of even a single paise. HMT might be claiming to be the time-keepers' to the Nation. However, the real announcer of the Day break with computer like acc is this rooster alone.
However, this morning call of the rooster will soon become a thing of the past, considering the violence let loose by the ungrateful mankind on the cocks and hens under the name of poultry business. Then what we will hear will be the cries of torture of the birds languishing in the concentration camps of the poultry farms.
The hens which are reared for producing more and more eggs and
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