Beef Ban

Of cows and lynchings in India 

Source: India Ministry of Livestock,2019 Sources: Live Mint, a web portal news service,2019. Since the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under the leadership of current Prime Minister Narendra Modi…

Cow, Caste, Che Guevara

Cows, cows and more chocolate brown cows. Driving on the highway that cuts through the vast Argentinian pampas, south of Buenos Aires, that’s all one sees everywhere around for miles…

Beef Ban: Playing With Fire

There is no doubt the government of India has attempted to prohibit through the backdoor, beef consumption across the country through new rules made under the Prevention of Cruelty to…

Sermons

Brothers ! Sisters ! Listen ! Unite and hasten To counter cow vigilantes Forced religious conversions Voice right to dissent And rights of women empowerment Release of illegal detainees Without…

CPDR Condemns Attack On A Scholar Of IIT Madras

Last week, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has issued an anti-constitutional gazette notification-- Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Regulation of Livestock Markets) Rules, 2017 --banning cattle slaughter…

Beef Poem

My harvest of poems will be winnowed. if done deftly, the lighter shallow poems blow away in the wind while the heavier, meatier poems, fall back onto the tray, to…

Non State Actors And Moral Policing

In the recent past, one has witnessed violence being increasingly inflicted by actors such as Gau Rakshaks, Anti Romeo squads and Hindu Yuva Vahini. Violence by Hindu senas, Ram senas,…

Deconstructing Yogi’s Meat Politics

  The crackdown on illegal abattoirs was one of the first decisions taken by Yogi Adityanath soon after taking over as Chief Minister of the most populous and politically crucial…

Holy Cow

Madhavikutty, the renowned Malayalm writer, was ahead of her times. Here is a short story she wrote in Malayalam in the sixties. It foretells what's happening in India now.  …

Cow Protectors: Fake And Real

The Prime Minister came out with statements condemning the act of Cow vigilante groups. By stating that most of self styled cow protectors are anti-social elements, he tried to create…

Modi Says “Shoot”! But Whom?

Narendra Modi’s high octane poll campaign was littered with the promise of Development, with a capital D. Big business, in India and abroad, had bought his promise too. And now,…

An Essay On Cow

The lesson on Cow is a popular lesson among School children. If School Children were asked to recite an essay on Cow in present times, it would go like this:…

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