THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALASH BISWAS TALKS AGAINST CASTEIST HEGEMONY IN SOUTH ASIA

THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALASH BISWAS TALKS AGAINST CASTEIST HEGEMONY IN SOUTH ASIA INDIA AGAINST ITS OWN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

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Sunday, June 28, 2015

Saving the Cows, Starving the Children.बाकी स्वदेश गोमाता का है।

महाजिन्न के चीन सफर में महावाल कितना खुला ,वह तो अडाणी अंबानी जाने लेकिन चीनी वीटो की मार कैसी है,वह भारतीयराजनय को मालूम हुआ कि नहीं ,पता नहीं बलि।
आपदाओं का भूगोल लेकिन एकच है।
आज भी कोलकाता और असम में भूकंप 5.6 रेक्टर स्केल पर।एपिसेंटर असम में।घृणा अभियान का एपिसेंटर तो काश्मीर है।बाकी एजंडा बाबी जिंदल हवाले।

मानसून मूसलाधार जारी है तो महामंदी आगे बंगाल की भुखमरी है।

बाकी इंडिया इंक को बाबाजी का ठुल्लु।

बाकी आम बनियाखुदरा बाजार ब्रांड को बनिया पार्टी के मेकिंग इन ठुल्लु।
भारत का मुक्त बाजार चीन के हवाले हैं।
रेवड़ियां अपनो को बांटने के लिए संघ परिवार की सरकार चीन को गोमांस भेजने लगी है।
निर्यात में धर्म अधर्म नहीं है।
बाकी स्वदेश गोमाता का है।
पलाश विश्वास
मुलाहिजा फरमायेंः

London — GANDHI famously denied himself food. And by starving himself to protest British rule, he ultimately made India stronger. But India's leaders today are using food as a weapon, and they are sacrificing not themselves, but others. Their decisions threaten to make India's children — already among the most undernourished in the world — weaker still.

Earlier this month, the chief minister of the central Indian state ofMadhya PradeshShivraj Singh Chouhan, struck down a proposed pilot project to introduce eggs in free government nursery schools in districts populated by economically disadvantaged indigenous groups. The proposal came from the state's own officials, but was dismissed by Mr. Chouhan on the grounds that eggs are a nonvegetarian food. Mr. Chouhan, like many Hindus, is a vegetarian and avoids eggs because they may be fertilized and are seen as a life force. While he has refused to address this incident publicly, his press officer claimed there were "more nutritious options available." But what, exactly?

In Madhya Pradesh, many of the poor communities survive on government-subsidized grain and foraged plants. According to the last National Family Health Survey, indigenous children were the most malnourished of any community in the state. Even across the state, 52 percent of children under 6 — the age up to which they may attend government nurseries — are underweight, says the National Institute of Nutrition. Indeed Madhya Pradesh, the economist Jean Drèze told me, "is far worse than even the Indian average." It is in the grip of a "nutritional emergency," he said.

Child-rights activists had supported the proposal, because eggs — a superfood that is about 10 percent fat and extremely high in protein — are the most nutritional way to improve the children's health, more so than a cup of milk or a banana, which the state claims it will offer in place of eggs. Bananas spoil easily, and milk is often laced in India with paint, detergent or shampoo, so much so that the federal government is considering making milk adulteration punishable with life imprisonment.

Another staple food was taken from the plates of the poor in the neighboring state of Maharashtra, after it banned the possession and sale of beef. It is enforceable with a prison term of up to five years. Hindus consider cows to be sacred, but Hindu nationalists, emboldened by the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have lobbied aggressively on the issue, not out of concern for the animals — which are typically bone-thin and live on garbage — but to force their religious beliefs on non-Hindus. The ban, implemented in March, was a body blow to the poor. Beef, unlike mutton and chicken, is cheap. It is an important source of protein for low-caste Dalits, and for minority communities like Muslims and Christians.

The decision by Devendra Fadnavis, chief minister of Maharashtra, is appalling given the widespread poverty in his state. It is also inhumane toward the very animals it claims to protect. The Indian Express newspaper reports that farmers don't know what to do with dying cattle. Since they can neither sell nor butcher them, they are letting the animals loose to fend for themselves. Surely, there is nothing sacred about starving cows.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/opinion/sunday/saving-the-cows-starving-the-children.html?referrer=&_r=0

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