‘Dogs are essential to my life’: Indologist Wendy Doniger writes about her pets in her memoir
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Through all of the turmoil and triumphs in my life, my closest companions have often been dogs. For I have measured out my life not in coffee-spoons but in dogs; even in India, among all the many temples I visited, I remember with special pleasure my visit to the extraordinary dog temple in Varanasi, dedicated primarily to the dogs of the god Shiva, himself often accompanied by dogs, one of the many things I love about him. The temple was filled with statues of gods to whom people made offerings of food that was quickly snaffled up by the many live dogs that roamed the temple, unharassed, an extraordinary phenomenon in India, where street dogs are starved and beaten.
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Will Rogers once said, “If there are no dogs in heaven, then when I die, I want to go where they went.” Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life of Dogs, was once asked if she thought there were dogs in heaven. “I know there are,” she replied. When asked how she was so sure, she simply replied, “Otherwise it would not be heaven.” (Androcles, in George Bernard Shaw’s Androcles and the Lion, says, “I really don’t think I could consent to go to heaven if...