Animal instincts, human survival

Just when we are beginning to forget the lessons the Covid pandemic taught us the hard way, Poorva Joshipura's book serves as a stark reminder of the perils that befall when humans mistreat animals

Survival at Stake: How Our Treatment of Animals is Key to Human Existence

Author: Poorva Joshipura

Publisher: HarperCollins

Pages: 318 + xxxi

Price: Rs 499

It wasn’t long ago that a virus passed on to humans through an animal, which is yet to be conclusively identified, and sent the world into a tizzy. For those few years, when humans locked themselves in, the rest of the animal world was out and about.

As human activity came to a grinding halt, smoggy urban skies turned blue again and nature flourished. People wrote articles and put out videos and social media posts on how beautiful and