Holy Cow!

There is some agitation going on somewhere in India over cow slaughter and a bunch of agitators backed by the Hindu outfits like Sangh Pariwar are clamoring for a ban on cow slaughter and legislation offering protection to the Holy Cows in this Holy Hindu land of ours! many swamis and Babas that Baba Ramdev manages to collect to endorse himself, also appeal for ban on cow slaughter and cow worship/
The shocking realities are known to everyone. We see Cows occupying urban spaces in all our cities , merrily camping in the middle of roads of our National Capital of Delhi a fact which I don’t know whether the Jan Sanghis, the BJP of today who have ruled Delhi city, makes them most proud and happy!
Another reality is the aimlessly wandering cows all over the country side bereft of any proper care or protection, hungrily poking around in garbage dumps , competing with pigs, dogs, and other animals for a share of discarded food, and even eating scrap paper, newspapers, and even choking on plastic bags. I don’t know where these great Gou Rakshaks, the so-called Cow lovers who are agitating for Gou Raksha are! What have they ever done to remove the cows from garbage dumps and give them proper food?
Every politician and cop knows it for a fact that hundreds of truck loads of cows/bulls/buffaloes are carried every day to Bangladesh for slaughtering, passing right through all the states of India, where innumerable “barriers” erected by Police,Octroi,Sales Tax, Toll Tax and various other Government agencies merrily accept their cut with a share duly passed on upstairs to their political masters and local Dons who protect this racket day in day out. Nobody lifts a finger at this, because everybody has a vested interest in this racket.Yet we have Hindu right wingers and fanatics with their own private hidden agenda exploiting poor professional protestors into various Morchas and Dharnas.

All this is a big sham, a big racket, everyone in the country knows it, yet the newspapers and Media carry the news of anti-cow-slaughter agitations which are quickly buried in backpages within a few hours, everybody forgets, and move on, till one fine day when the agitation erupts again, once more to be buried in the quicksand of “public memory”.
It is an endless Tamasha perfected as an art form by the fledgling Indian democracy!