Rishabh Suri (HINDUSTAN TIMES; April 6, 2020)

Actor Raveena Tandon, apart from spreading the message about pets not being the carrier of the Coronavirus, is also working on other initiatives. Case in point, owners being fully responsible for their pets in public.

“The thing about pet owners is that they have enough money to spend on pets wearing fancy socks and shoes, but they’ll not spend even ₹500 on a poop scooper. This is something which I’ve been talking about to our local corporator as well, to try and start a campaign,” she says.

Tandon, 45, points how people walk their dogs, and “literally turn their face around while the pet goes pooping on the road”. She rues, “They’ll not take two minutes to train their dog walker or staff to pick the pet’s poop! They leave it for the poor municipal sweepers who’ll come to clean in the morning”.

Apart from such social causes, what is also keeping Tandon occupied is making sure her two kids Ranbir and Rasha don’t waste time, since schools are shut. “I’m showing them all our Hindi classics like Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi, Padosan, and yes, they’ve already seen Andaz Apna Apna (laughs). I anyway prefer home schooling, and feel that with travelling and showing kids different things teaches them stuff that you can’t learn from schools,” she says.