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Over the past two years, the gentle cow has dominated national headlines and underlined political agenda, and in most of the cases, it's for all the wrong reasons. From Dadri lynching to beef ban that started in Maharashtra and Haryana, the bovine animal has become a pivotal factor in the running of the Indian nation. The cows, or gau mata, has conquered political and religious debates in the country. Be it politicians urging to make it the national animal or attacking students for consuming its meat, there's hardly anything in India right now that gains more attention than cows, sadly not even the safety of women and girls. (Or perhaps the 'celibate' peacock can be a worthy opponent.)



Picture taken at India Gate, New Delhi. (Source: Sujatro Ghosh)