I’m not a serial writer or complainer. I am a vegetarian and self-taught proud Hindu. However, ashamed to be Indian having researched on the internet that India is the largest exporter of beef and has around 33,000 illegal and shameful 3,600 legal slaughterhouses. Yes the constitution and nearly all States have laws to prevent cow slaughter subject to certain criteria’s etc. However, in a Hindu majority country, if not a ‘Hindu Country’, where the cow and all forms of life are sacred this is utterly shameful. To add insult to injury, India is one of the worst countries in the World for crime and social oppression towards women. A real shame as Hindu cultures prescribe respect and even worship of cows and women in motherly forms!
The wonderful Modi government is keen to promote India, to make it fast, modern, investable, etc, however won’t the above affect India’s ‘karma’ and cause further misery – will the struggles of saints, sadhus and many avtars of the Gods over centuries and making the Country so holy, all go in vain! Shame on India!
R Orisa
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