India’s Cow Vigilantism: The other side of the story
Cow-related violence and lynching have been making the media headlines world over in the recent past, especially since the now 4-year old Modi government of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) took office in 2014. What More...
Should India strive to become the largest exporter of beef in the world?
Introduction Yogi Adityanath began his term as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh with an intense campaign against the illegal slaughterhouses running in the State. This has temporarily shut down the meat industry More...
केरल में सरेआम काटी गई गाय, हाय-हाय, हाय-हाय, हाय-हाय
केरल में गाय काटी गई, रिपोर्ट में आया कि भैंस कटी है, फिर आया कि बैल काटा गया है और अंततः More...
A Case for Cow-Protection without Whitewashing the Past
“Cow” is called “aghnya”- the inviolable, the one which should not be harmed or killed. Hindus perceive her as the mother who nourishes everyone, as the abode of all goodness, and the very embodiment of More...
Political Humbuggery, The New York Times, and Indian Shills
Is this possible too – that cow urine can tantalize the taste-buds of the readers of the venerable New York Times? It seems so, especially if it is garnished with generous doses of phrases like the “Hindu More...
The Hindu View on Food and Drink
Co-authored by Hari Ravikumar In 2007, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations conducted a survey of meat consumption per person in every country. India came last. Food: Vegetarian and Non-Vegetarian Further, More...
Beef Has Hurt Freedom Far More than any Beef-Ban
The pro-beef lobby has been incredibly oblivious to the devastating role that the demand for beef has played in human history. The discussion about beef in most of the major Indian media outlets (and their colonial More...
Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest: 29 September 2014 — 5 October 2014
1. TTD Worker Held for ‘Proselytising’ Report: In yet another incident of propaganda of other religions on Tirumala Hills, the TTD vigilance staff on Wednesday detained a contract employee working at More...
Cows becoming endangered in Tamil Nadu
When it comes to religious tradition and the cultural heritage associated with it, our culture stands foremost in the world, with thousands of temples more than millennia old, a continuous legacy of pious worship More...