NOBLE COW: MUNCHING GRASS LOOKING CURIOUS AND JUST HANGING AROUND
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The Bull Star
Busier Than Bollywood Heroes
Gopal, a 14 year-old bull from Sanosra village in Kutch district in India has dates booked till 2013. He has already mated 486 times, and packs in a busy schedule, with interested parties from as far as Haryana having to book a ‘mating appointment.’
And some think that only Bollywood stars have their dates packed for the next two years!
He has a topnotch mating record and is in demand all over Gujarat, Punjab and Haryana. According to the Gaushala (cow shelter) trustees, Gopal is available by appointment-only system. In last eight months, his schedule has been extremely tight. People coming from far off areas have been camping in the village with their cows.
The reason Gopal is in heavy demand is because he begets ‘powerful offsprings.’ He has fathered many illustrious sons and daughters. His sons are becoming powerful bulls and his daughters are yielding 15 to 17-litre milk yield per day, much higher than regular cows.
While the average bull tends to mate about 50 times in his lifetime, Gopal has already impregnated 486 cows. And he still has another seven years of his mating cycle to go.
Gopal arrived at the Sanosra Gaushala five and a half years ago when a Kutchi gentleman based in Australia gifted Gopal to the gaushala, impressed by the work they were doing. Gopal was picked up because of his ancestry which can be traced to the Gir cow, belonging to a famous milk cattle breed of India found in the Gir hills of Gujarat and the forests of Kathiawar.
Like every busy star, Gopal gets off time too — twice every year, around June and December.
The reason for such scarcity of good bulls is simple to understand. In the last 250 years, there was a deliberate attempt to break the backbone of a nation and subjugate it by destroying its economic fabric.
India had the world’s best draught animals, particularly oxen. They were promoted in pre-Independence India by princely states and temple trusts, which provided funds to develop specialised breeds as well as stud bulls for breed improvement in villages.
Of India’s over 100 known cattle breeds, most were developed for draught in times when the economy ran on animal power. With the Green Revolution, it was assumed tractors would make draught animals irrelevant. Government support for breed maintenance died out. So much so, most indigenous cattle ‘80-90 percent’ is now categorised as ‘non-descript’.
This trail of destruction in fact began with the arrival of the British in the middle of the 18th century in India. India was known all over the world for her immense wealth and a highly advanced culture. Cows formed the backbone of it and cows were such an inseparable part of its daily life that Indian culture of that period can safely be termed as cow culture.
When the British colonized India, they studied India thoroughly to keep her under subjugation. Robert Clive, the Governor of British India at the time, made an extensive research in Indian economic and agricultural systems. He found that Indian society was firmly footed in its age-old customs and sound economic and agricultural practices, all based on cow protection. We can quote a letter of Lord MCLau here, a British colonial dated February 2, 1835.
“I have traveled across the length and breath of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief, such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber (of noble character), that I do not think we would ever conquer this country………..unless we break the very backbone of this nation which is her spiritual and cultural heritage.”
So during his surveys, Robert Clive found that in 1740, in the Arcot District of Tamil Nadu, 54 Quintals of rice was harvested from one acre of land using manure and pesticides made from cow urine and cow dung. Cow was the foundation of this great nation and cows greatly outnumbered men. He realized that unless this foundation was shaken up, they could not keep their hold on India for too long. This inspired him to open the first ever slaughterhouse in Indian in 1760, with a capacity to kill thousands of cows every week. As a part of the master plan to destabilize India, cow slaughter was initiated. To this extent, the British were quite successful. Cow slaughter, engineered by them, divided Hindu and Muslim communities which had coexisted peacefully for the last 700 years. Millions died in ensuing riots which lasted for decades. To this day, India and Pakistan are locked in bitter enemity and continuously suffering.
The Bull Star
Busier Than Bollywood Heroes
Gopal, a 14 year-old bull from Sanosra village in Kutch district in India has dates booked till 2013. He has already mated 486 times, and packs in a busy schedule, with interested parties from as far as Haryana having to book a ‘mating appointment.’
And some think that only Bollywood stars have their dates packed for the next two years!
He has a topnotch mating record and is in demand all over Gujarat, Punjab and Haryana. According to the Gaushala (cow shelter) trustees, Gopal is available by appointment-only system. In last eight months, his schedule has been extremely tight. People coming from far off areas have been camping in the village with their cows.
The reason Gopal is in heavy demand is because he begets ‘powerful offsprings.’ He has fathered many illustrious sons and daughters. His sons are becoming powerful bulls and his daughters are yielding 15 to 17-litre milk yield per day, much higher than regular cows.
While the average bull tends to mate about 50 times in his lifetime, Gopal has already impregnated 486 cows. And he still has another seven years of his mating cycle to go.
Gopal arrived at the Sanosra Gaushala five and a half years ago when a Kutchi gentleman based in Australia gifted Gopal to the gaushala, impressed by the work they were doing. Gopal was picked up because of his ancestry which can be traced to the Gir cow, belonging to a famous milk cattle breed of India found in the Gir hills of Gujarat and the forests of Kathiawar.
Like every busy star, Gopal gets off time too — twice every year, around June and December.
The reason for such scarcity of good bulls is simple to understand. In the last 250 years, there was a deliberate attempt to break the backbone of a nation and subjugate it by destroying its economic fabric.
India had the world’s best draught animals, particularly oxen. They were promoted in pre-Independence India by princely states and temple trusts, which provided funds to develop specialised breeds as well as stud bulls for breed improvement in villages.
Of India’s over 100 known cattle breeds, most were developed for draught in times when the economy ran on animal power. With the Green Revolution, it was assumed tractors would make draught animals irrelevant. Government support for breed maintenance died out. So much so, most indigenous cattle ‘80-90 percent’ is now categorised as ‘non-descript’.
This trail of destruction in fact began with the arrival of the British in the middle of the 18th century in India. India was known all over the world for her immense wealth and a highly advanced culture. Cows formed the backbone of it and cows were such an inseparable part of its daily life that Indian culture of that period can safely be termed as cow culture.
When the British colonized India, they studied India thoroughly to keep her under subjugation. Robert Clive, the Governor of British India at the time, made an extensive research in Indian economic and agricultural systems. He found that Indian society was firmly footed in its age-old customs and sound economic and agricultural practices, all based on cow protection. We can quote a letter of Lord MCLau here, a British colonial dated February 2, 1835.
“I have traveled across the length and breath of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief, such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber (of noble character), that I do not think we would ever conquer this country………..unless we break the very backbone of this nation which is her spiritual and cultural heritage.”
So during his surveys, Robert Clive found that in 1740, in the Arcot District of Tamil Nadu, 54 Quintals of rice was harvested from one acre of land using manure and pesticides made from cow urine and cow dung. Cow was the foundation of this great nation and cows greatly outnumbered men. He realized that unless this foundation was shaken up, they could not keep their hold on India for too long. This inspired him to open the first ever slaughterhouse in Indian in 1760, with a capacity to kill thousands of cows every week. As a part of the master plan to destabilize India, cow slaughter was initiated. To this extent, the British were quite successful. Cow slaughter, engineered by them, divided Hindu and Muslim communities which had coexisted peacefully for the last 700 years. Millions died in ensuing riots which lasted for decades. To this day, India and Pakistan are locked in bitter enemity and continuously suffering.
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So Radha-kunda Mukerjee, he has supported cow slaughter. He was given a post, made a parliament member first of all. So this poor man, five hundred rupees per month, he accepted. Then he induced that “You take more money, write like this.” So if you pay money… British government’s whole policy was that if the Indians are kept strict Hindus, it is next to impossible to govern them. So therefore they adopted this policy. They changed the whole policy how the Hindu will think everything mentioned in the sastra is nonsense. They have trained up, and Nehru is the first-class trainee. |
Robert Clive started a number of slaughter houses before he left India. By 1910, 350 slaughterhouses were working day and night. India was reduced to severe poverty, millions were dying from hunger and malnutrition, age-old cottage industries were devastated and village artisans took up jobs as coolies in cities. Manchester cloth effectively destroyed Indian handlooms and textiles enterprise. Using Indian money and Indian man power, the British were expanding their empire all over the world.
Bereft of its cattle wealth, India had to approach England for industrial manure. Thus industrial manure like urea and phosphate made way to India. Indian villages, in which once flowed streams of milk and butter, became haunted hamlets, wretched and starving. A Paradise was lost. An India where horses and bullocks were made to drink ghee, was now suffering from scarcity of margarine. It was total devastation of a great civilization.
The British established an educational system which decried anything connected with Indian tradition. This was a crafty engineering by Macaulay who said, “We must at present do our best to form a class of persons Indian in blood and colour but English in tastes, in opinion, in morals, and in intellect.” He did this so effectively that even after sixty years of independence Indians still continue to exist in a state of stupor, unable (and even unwilling!) to extricate themselves from one of the greatest hypnoses woven over a whole nation.
By the time British departed from India, thousands of slaughterhouses were in operation and now its hard to keep a count of them. The result is this - 40000 suicides by Indian farmers every year and the largest number of malnourished children in the World.
Bereft of its cattle wealth, India had to approach England for industrial manure. Thus industrial manure like urea and phosphate made way to India. Indian villages, in which once flowed streams of milk and butter, became haunted hamlets, wretched and starving. A Paradise was lost. An India where horses and bullocks were made to drink ghee, was now suffering from scarcity of margarine. It was total devastation of a great civilization.
The British established an educational system which decried anything connected with Indian tradition. This was a crafty engineering by Macaulay who said, “We must at present do our best to form a class of persons Indian in blood and colour but English in tastes, in opinion, in morals, and in intellect.” He did this so effectively that even after sixty years of independence Indians still continue to exist in a state of stupor, unable (and even unwilling!) to extricate themselves from one of the greatest hypnoses woven over a whole nation.
By the time British departed from India, thousands of slaughterhouses were in operation and now its hard to keep a count of them. The result is this - 40000 suicides by Indian farmers every year and the largest number of malnourished children in the World.