Status Updates From The Myth of the Holy Cow

The response of historical scholarship to the communal perception of Indian food culture, therefore, has been sober and scholars have drawn attention to the textual evidence on the subject which, in fact, begins to be available in the oldest Indian religious text Rgveda, supposedly of divine origin.

The communalists who have been raising a hullabaloo over the cow in the political arena do not realize that beef eating remained a fairly common practice for a long time in India and that the arguments for its prevalence are based on the evidence drawn from our own scriptures and religious texts.

Re-reading it after learning the news that the BJP government in West Bengal is reviving old cattle slaughter laws to restrict meat consumption.
Why can't Hindutva leaders leave food choices to the people?

This book should be made mandatory at the school level if we have any dream of grooming a generation with civic sense rather than religious followers.