On Twitter, as a reaction to Dadri, one Anuj Kumar with a healthy 22,000 followers, tweeted, “These b****rds know that Hindus worship the cow, still they slaughter it and provoke Hindus. Whoever slaughters a cow, slaughters a Hindu.”
Maybe its not about any particular community, maybe its about the hatred spread by political groups who show only one side of the story and leaving rest on people's assumptions thus creating communal tensions.
1) Leather shoes, belts, bagsCowhide is the primary material used to make leather. In fact, for thick leather such as shoes and jackets, cowhide is used almost exclusively.
Tanneries making leather from cowhide are run openly across India. In a marvellous display of cognitive dissonance, unlike riots over beef , no one seems to think utilising the sacred cow to make wearable items is in any way a religious insult grevious enough to provoke violence.
2) Sugar and crockeryThe white sugar we use is not white to begin with. The brownish material is bleached using a decolourising filter called bone char – which is made using the bones of cattle. Moreover, when we talk about bone china, we aren’t being figurative here. Your cup is made up of cow bones – literally.
Paradoxically, India is one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of bone char.
Madhya Pradesh is a state that has a draconian cow slaughter law, where if you are suspected of killing a cow, you are presumed guilty and have to then prove yourself innocent. In this way, it is even stricter than the laws against human murder, where presumption of innocence still applies. Oddly, in this very same state, using the sacred cow’s bones after death to make sugar or bowls is perfectly fine.
3) TyresStearic acid is an industrial chemical used in soaps, cosmetics, detergents, lubricants and tyres. Its main ingredient is cow fat. Thankfully, unlike beef steak, using tyres is still legal in Mumbai.
4) Musical instrumentsLoved that violin riff or piano soliloquy in that latest song? If you’re a cow activist, be ready for some guilt. Bovine tissue is used to make glue which is the best adhesive for wooden musical instrument such as violins and pianos.
But what if, as a shudh cow activist, you’ve shunned all mleccha Western influence and only listen to pure Indian music? Even more trouble there: desi percussion instruments such as the tabla or the mridangam are made using cow hide.
The number of cow protection riots started because of a session of vigourous tabla riyaaz : 0.
5) CricketIt’s a common quip that cricket in India is a religion. Indeed, so strong is the power of cricket that it seems to overcome Hinduism’s powerful cow slaughter taboo. The cricket ball used in the gentleman’s’ game is made of cowhide.
The people who beat Mohammed Akhlaq to death in Dadri on Sunday were incensed by the rumour that he had killed and eaten a cow. Yet those very same people would have no issues watching a game where a cowhide ball, also made as a result of slaughtering a sacred cow, was batted around a field.
To paint cow protection as a matter of faith is being short sighted. If the cow is sacred enough to not be cooked into a curry, that should also disqualify it from being made into shoes, used for percussion or hit around a field in the form of a ball. In many cases, the people who sell the cow to be slaughtered or run businesses that profit from cow slaughter are Hindus. Luckily, that never provokes violence.
Becoming more of a place of communal hatred and tension, no offence just facts!!
#Satyam_Bruyat
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