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 completely unexpected that they have...
View ArticleLynching 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 Mathura from Delhi on...
View ArticleCow, 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 and miles on end....
View ArticleGandhiji 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 Babu tells me that...
View ArticleHindutva 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 cases from the long list. In...
View ArticleThe 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 to conserve – is...
View ArticleIndian 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 Political...
View ArticleWill 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 by a spate of gruesome lynchings. And at the...
View ArticleMuslim 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...
View ArticleOf 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...
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