The cow’s status doesn’t protect her,’ says Yamini Narayanan
A senior lecturer at Deakin University in Australia, Yamini Narayanan exposes how the cow has been exploited to promote casteism and communalism. In an interview, she responds to questions that emerge from her ground-breaking book Mother Cow, Mother India. Edited excerpts. Its political connotation notwithstanding, does cow vigilantism hold the ‘cow’ as a cultural symbol to…