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    You Are What You Eat: Sacred Animals and Forbidden Foods

    Essays

    You Are What You Eat: Sacred Animals and Forbidden Foods

    “Eating a cow or a pig or an onion does not make one an immoral person. Dictating another’s life makes one an immoral person.” Supriya Ambwani on the social effect ...
    by SupriyaAmbwani • August 21, 2013November 12, 2020
    The White Revolution: Sacred Cows in India

    Arts & Culture

    The White Revolution: Sacred Cows in India

    Supriya Ambwani investigates how the pervasive idea of cow veneration in India has affected the country’s milk and beef industries, and even the landscape.

    by SupriyaAmbwani • May 13, 2013May 23, 2013

    Arts & Culture

    Sacred Cows

    In this, the first of her columns for Litro challenging Indian attitudes to the sacred cow, Supriya Ambwani questions the Hindu ban on eating beef, investigates what’s behind the traditional ...
    by SupriyaAmbwani • February 5, 2013May 11, 2013
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