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Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
What is really important today is how do we retain and grow our premier exporting position in leather goods and buffalo meat, keeping in mind the sentiments regarding cows in the country. Religious organizations have to work out a middle ground.
I am not sure why this is such a big deal, one cannot demand a good pork chop be sold in any Muslim country? Why ? because muslim majority does not like it and or may be illegal. So why make it a big deal when Hindu majority does not like it in the same token?. Fair enough? Eat Mutton, Chicken etc.. So imo this is really a NON ISSUE .
But what about my fundamental right to choose my food? I love my beef steak. I don’t care what the Muslim majority countries do, I don’t live in a Muslim country. I live in a secular democracy.
Constitution is a subjectively dictated instructor of operations. There are often clashes and there is no objectively correct direction of conduct. Tell me mr. whoever the h are you, should there or not be a place for religious values in constitution? What if your wife is asked to expose herself without burkha? And if you love your beef, steak, I love eating human flesh; tell me should I kill you and eat you? Should it be allowed within the law? I D I O T
Where was “THEIR” patriotism in 1947? They divided India
A certain section of Muslims in the sub continent divided India and migrated. But a large number stayed back out of conviction for a diverse and secular India, and so, they cannot be blamed for dividing India.
Very correct.
The UN has come out recently with a statement that meat production consumes TREMENDOUS amount of water(5000 listers per kg) and to save the planet the world should give up meat .coming to cow slaughter ban, the issue is what to do when the cow goes dry and how to feed in summer and during drought.The solution lies in go shoals in every village in which dry cowe can be provided shelter and food till the end of their life.The skin of the dead animals can be given to the leather industry.Gujarat, as in every other animal issue maintains large stocks of hay made out of agricultural and FOREST grasses near railway stations and roadsides to supply drought hit areas, a model that can be emulated by other states.Finding LAND for go salad and funding will be no problem as the communities will come forward to save the cow.
I don’t agree at all. One cannot speak for the temper and times of India from a hundred years ago. However, today, when Muslims are being pushed into ghettos, squeezed out of the higher reaches of public life, asking them to stop eating beef is not far different from saying, Why don’t you give up the claim over a small, 2.77 acre piece of land in a small, dusty town where a decrepit Vivadit Dhaancha once stood. A fine column by Prof Ashutosh Varshney in IE today would convey these sentiments more eloquently than I can.
What is really important today is how do we retain and grow our premier exporting position in leather goods and buffalo meat, keeping in mind the sentiments regarding cows in the country. Religious organizations have to work out a middle ground.
I am not sure why this is such a big deal, one cannot demand a good pork chop be sold in any Muslim country? Why ? because muslim majority does not like it and or may be illegal. So why make it a big deal when Hindu majority does not like it in the same token?. Fair enough? Eat Mutton, Chicken etc.. So imo this is really a NON ISSUE .
But what about my fundamental right to choose my food? I love my beef steak. I don’t care what the Muslim majority countries do, I don’t live in a Muslim country. I live in a secular democracy.
Constitution is a subjectively dictated instructor of operations. There are often clashes and there is no objectively correct direction of conduct. Tell me mr. whoever the h are you, should there or not be a place for religious values in constitution? What if your wife is asked to expose herself without burkha? And if you love your beef, steak, I love eating human flesh; tell me should I kill you and eat you? Should it be allowed within the law? I D I O T
Where was “THEIR” patriotism in 1947? They divided India
A certain section of Muslims in the sub continent divided India and migrated. But a large number stayed back out of conviction for a diverse and secular India, and so, they cannot be blamed for dividing India.
Very correct.
The UN has come out recently with a statement that meat production consumes TREMENDOUS amount of water(5000 listers per kg) and to save the planet the world should give up meat .coming to cow slaughter ban, the issue is what to do when the cow goes dry and how to feed in summer and during drought.The solution lies in go shoals in every village in which dry cowe can be provided shelter and food till the end of their life.The skin of the dead animals can be given to the leather industry.Gujarat, as in every other animal issue maintains large stocks of hay made out of agricultural and FOREST grasses near railway stations and roadsides to supply drought hit areas, a model that can be emulated by other states.Finding LAND for go salad and funding will be no problem as the communities will come forward to save the cow.
I don’t agree at all. One cannot speak for the temper and times of India from a hundred years ago. However, today, when Muslims are being pushed into ghettos, squeezed out of the higher reaches of public life, asking them to stop eating beef is not far different from saying, Why don’t you give up the claim over a small, 2.77 acre piece of land in a small, dusty town where a decrepit Vivadit Dhaancha once stood. A fine column by Prof Ashutosh Varshney in IE today would convey these sentiments more eloquently than I can.