The Majority’s ‘beef’ with democracy
“Whatever the majority wants should happen. That’s democracy, right?” said a friend to me the other day when we were sitting around in a group and the discussion took a…
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…
Muslim man in Assam thrashed for allegedly carrying beef, forced to eat pork
GUWAHATI, APRIL 9: In a shocking incident of hate crime reported from Assam's Biswanath Charali headquarters of Biswanath district, about 240 km north-east of state capital Guwahati a sexagenarian skull…
Will Supreme Court Order Rein Cow Vigilantism
When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw. -Nelson Mandela India has been bedeviled…
Indian Fascism: Radicalization or Entropy? The Choice Is Ours!
The second book from Countercurrents.org publishing is out. It is a book on the cow politics in India and the resultant lynchings that’s happening around the country. It is titled…
The Importance of Being a Cow: A Mother or a Meal?
The more conservative a society, the more is its ritualistic overtone, and vice versa. In other words, by the very definition of conservatism – an ideology built around the idea…
Hindutva And Cow: Love For Cow or Hatred For “Others”?
There have been several brutal lynchings of Muslims and beatings of dalits on the issue of Holy cow. Mohammad Akhlaq in Dadri, Pehlu Khan in Mewat being just two of the…
Gandhiji Said, No Law Can Be Made To Ban Cow-Slaughter
This is an excerpt from Gandhi’s prayer discourse of July 25, 1947, from the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 88, as published online by the Gandhi Heritage Portal. Rajendra…
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…
Lynching of Muslim Youth-Junaid
New Delhi | 26th June: National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) is shocked and horrified by the gruesome murder of sixteen year old Junaid Khan in running train enroute to…
Which Interests Will Benefit From The Beef Ban?
No one could accuse the present Government of a lack of a sense of drama. The last few months in particular have witnessed one spectacular move after another – so…
“Cowistan” And “Kaliban”!
(RSS through the ruling BJP is aiming to turn the Great Republic of India into a “Cowistan” with the help of their Gau Rakhshaks who are India’s “Kaliban”!)…
Unfurl The Tricolour And Say India Will Not Become ‘Cowistan’, ‘Kaliban’ Will Not Rule Us
When I was in school we used to say a pledge in the morning assembly. It began this way, “India is my country. All Indians are my brothers and sisters….”.…
Rahul Gandhi: Please Undertake A Padyatra From Kashmir To Kanyakumari
Please come out strongly against this illegal ban on cattle slaughter. Kindly translate your verbal assurances to concrete actions. Undertake a padyatra from Kashmir to Kanyakumari against the illegal, divisive…
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…
Rahul Gandhi Must Back Up His Words With Deeds
The Economic Times reported that Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi told party leaders from minority communities in Karnataka to be prepared for polarisation efforts by the BJP in the run-up…
Who ‘Loves’ Mob Violence ? Unfolding Hindu Rashtra In Slow Motion
Jaipur -- Rajasthan State Commission for Minorities has sought a factual report on a video that went viral on Thursday showing four Sikh men purportedly beaten up by local…
Wake Up: India Is Changing Faster Than We Can Imagine
Ever since the Rajasthan High Court judge made public, his suggestions on declaring the cow, the national animal of India solely based on his inner voice and also went a…
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…
‘Beef Ban’ Protesters Arrested In Bangalore
Around 25 people protesting the 'beef ban' in Bangalore were arrested and put under police custody today. About 500 people marching towards the Bangalore town hall were stopped by the…
The Reason That I, A US Citizen, Stand Against The India Beef Ban
The reason that I care about this food issue, although I personally can eat beef any day of the week that I may please since I live in the USA,…
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…
Brutal Attack On IIT Madras Students Protesting Beef Ban
This is a brief account of what happened in the IIT Madras campus in the last two days. The central govt’s notification was a matter of serious discussion amongst students.…
Beef Ban And The Fascist Assault On Society
I wish the people in India the best of good fortune in this alarming situation taking place in India so as to end beef farming, the beef industry overall and…
India’s Beef Ban: Pinarayi Vijayan Must Stand Up To Lead
The new rule notified under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PCA) Act of 1960 banning cattle trade across India is clear encroachment of states' rights. It will end federalism…
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,…
Political Economy of Cow-Mentality in India
India is a mosaic of great cultures. Not now. The culture which we inherited from our founding fathers and martyrs who wanted to preserve the greatness would be ashamed…
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: One More lynching
One Pehlu Khan from Haryana came to the cattle fair in Jaipur to purchase a buffalo. He was a dairy farmer. In the fair he was impressed by high…
WSS Condemns Threats By Bajrang Dal On WSS Activist In Assam
Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS) strongly condemns the manner in which our member Ms Bondita Acharya, a well known women's activist from Jorhat, Assam, is being criminally…
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. …
The Politicization Of Cow In North East India
Three people, including a minor, was arrested on 5th of April for cooking beef. The news is not from the state of Uttar Pradesh or Chhattisgarh, where eating or possessing…
A Hotelier Attacked In The Name Of Beef In Jaipur
One Kamal didi ( she signs as Kamal didi too) of the Rashtriya Mahila Gau Rakshak Mandal was trying to catch stray cows with the help of the nagar nigam…
Now, Haryana Cops Ask “What’s In Your Biryani?”
India's beef ban politics has taken a turn for the bizarre with Haryana police have started collecting samples of Biryani sold in Mewat district, the states only Muslim dominated district.…
BJP, Dalits, And The ‘Cow Politics.’
“In these four years, I also saw with, some disquiet, forces of divisiveness and intolerance trying to raise their ugly head. Attacks on weaker sections that militate against our national…
A BJP Local Leader Killed By Cow Vigilantes In Karnataka
A BJP local leader in Karnataka who was transporting cows in a vehicle died after he was attacked allegedly by right wing Hindutva group called Hindu Jagrana Vedike. Praveen Poojary,…
Narendra Modi, The Machiavellian Prince Of India
We have a Prime Minister who said that this government is for the Dalits, and the same Prime Minsiter says nothing when Dalits are publicly flogged by the gau rakshaks.…
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,…
New York Times Calls Modi’s Silence “Shameful”
One doesn’t often see a respected international media house asking a democratic republic’s prime minister to break his silence in an editorial. Even more rare is it to see…
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:…
Cow Skinning Takes A Deadly Turn: Gujarat Dalit Protest Spreads
Gujarat is witnessing widespread protests following the incident at Una where seven Dalit youths were beaten up for skinning a dead cow on July 11. 16 members of the Dalit…
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