Their stories

Every limb begins with a life.

Since 2014, every Krishna Limb has a story behind it — a rescue, a recovery, and the people who refused to give up. Here are a few.

A rescued street dog, photographed before treatment.

Second chances · 16 March 2020

Rescued ‘Brave’ to Get 4 Limbs

Thrown away by miscreants, a street dog gets a second chance — and a new set of legs.

Blackie the street dog with her family in Jaipur.

All her happiness in dogs · 23 September 2019

They Hate Us as We Love Dogs

Blackie wandered in pregnant and never left — turning one Jaipur family into devoted carers of a whole street of dogs.

Two cows supporting an injured bull on a street.

What the herd taught a vet · 15 June 2019

Bull Was Hit Hard That Day — Why I Didn’t Help

An injured bull stands frozen in shock — until two cows emerge from nowhere to lift him back onto his feet.

Rescued orphaned wild animals at the Amte family’s animal park.

A home for the orphaned · 13 May 2019

Orphan Babies of Wild Animals Find a Home

At a Maharashtra animal park, the Amte family raises a hundred orphaned wild babies as their own.

A love remembered · 5 March 2019

There Was a Laila: Orphan Pups and the Terror of Papa

Four orphan pups in a temple, one fragile soul named Laila, and a girl who loved her against all odds.

A team kneeling to fit a prosthetic limb to a cow.

A city responds · 8 February 2019

Subhadra, the Injured Cow from Chennai

An injured cow whose quiet courage moved an entire city to act.

Ganga the cow standing on her new prosthetic limb.

From doom to joy · 20 February 2016

Ganga the Cow Walks Again

From the slaughter line and a doomed prognosis to a young calf, a new limb, and happiness.

Ganga the rescued cow resting with her calf.

Awaiting her Krishna Limb · 2 January 2016

No Limp After the Artificial Limb

Rescued from slaughter and left disabled, Ganga waits for the limb — and the wrestler who refuses to give up on her.

Krishna the calf walking on his prosthetic limb.

In the press · 21 October 2015

The Hindu Writes About Krishna Limb

The Hindu profiles Dr Tapesh and the Krishna Limb — the prosthetic that helped a calf named Krishna walk again.

Gauri injured in Op Sindoor fitted with Krishna Limb

We served a Cow injured in Op Sindoor

A female calf named Gauri who lost her leg during heavy cross-border shelling by the Pakistan Army in Jammu and Kashmir during Operation Sindoor, has been treated and fitted with a new artificial limb called the 'Krishna Limb', giving her a new lease on life.