There is the Brahminical belief that the surest way to cross the perilous Vaitarni river on the way to heaven is to hang by the tail of a cow. Well, what do you know, this seems equally true of crossing the majority mark in the Lok Sabha. Consider the statement by an RSS leader that cow-related lynching will stop only if people ceased to consume beef.

Clearly, Indresh Kumar seems privy to things on the ground that we merely speculate about. An even more explicit admonition has come from Vinay Katiyar: Muslims ought not to touch cows. What could be a more no-nonsense ...