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One day while my daughter Rabu was preparing for her board examinations she was getting disturbed due to the constant barking. She complained to the neighbour, "Aunty, doesn’t your dog know I have my exams?" Aunty sarcastically said, "Beta, we have asked our dog a number of times to bark softly, but he doesn’t listen. Exams can’t take away the animal’s right to express itself." Rabu came home and asked me, "Papa, let us file a PIL against them in the interest of the neighbourhood." I told her, "It was not a good idea to take panga with the neighbours. Let somebody else complain." She suggested, "Could we set a mike and an amplifier near the dog so that its barking reaches the other end of the street?" "But what good would that do," I said. She said we had a High Court judge living at there. If he gets disturbed, he could pass orders against such nuisance. "No, he won’t do that. The Supreme Court has asked the judges not to venture into political adventurism", I said. She went to the study and came back immediately, "Now I know why the dog refuses to behave. It might have heard of judicial activism being curbed."
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neighbour’s dog barks too loudly. Once he starts he doesn’t stop
for a couple of hours. It is as if he is rehearsing for a song
competition on Sony or Star TV.