THE AESTHETIC CRIME : INBREEDING!

Six years back,

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My first safari —

My first interaction with the wild life.

I became a CURIOUS little kid, wide-eyed at the animal world.

There was this majestic creature —

A TIGER

Calm, composed, walking like royalty.

I felt the urge to pet her, to ask her How she is doing!

then I saw

a bear and its cub,

a lion with its pride,

elephant with its family 

Deers gulping water,

Grazing 

zebras striped in rhythm.

And then...

A WHITE TIGER.

It caught my attention.

I thought it was a rare find — a miracle.

I believed our government protected it.

But...

I recently learned the truth.

It wasn’t rare by nature —

It was the inbred descendant of a single white tiger,

captured in the 1900s.

I asked:

Why was it inbred?

The answer shook me —

“For aesthetic purposes.”!!

What?

Is this how we protect the rare?

By turning nature into a showroom?

By forcing bloodlines into loops,

like we did with inbred dogs?

Fragile genes,

deformed spines,

blind eyes,

weak hearts.

And all of this for… what?

For demand?

For a picture!

For a “Wow” !

I felt sad.

Broken.

And maybe…

that’s what they call an awakening.

Because I’m no longer a child

with just CURIOUS eyes...

This time, they were BLURRY eyes.