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Vizag ZOO needs your help

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I recently came across a news item which I have scanned and am pasting here: Do Vizagites have our priorities right? The news report says that Vizagites do not adopt animals, birds or reptiles at our Indira Gandhi Zoological Park. The report says that only 15 donors have come forward till date. I know that one of the 15 is myself. I made a Rs. 11,000 contribution in March 2012. Every few days we hear of people dropping crores worth of cash and jewelry into temple  hundis  as if to tell God  "here is a little something for you - help me to earn even more money and I will continue to give you a commission" .  While they attempt to appease God, they do not bother about God's creatures. A stanza of a poem by  William Henry Monk  which  I read in school comes back to me: All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful: The Lord God made them all It is a matter of great concern when those with means spend like cra