With the assembly elections in five states underway and the biggest of the big 2019 General Elections just a few months to go, the building of the Ram Temple is being projected as if it is the solution of all problems in India.
It is unfortunate that cow politics continued to flourish even after Independence. At its root was the same brahmanical mindset that led to the inclusion of the ban on cow slaughter under the Directive Principles of State Policy in the Constitution. Gandhian thought, which considered protecting the cow a duty of the Hindus, was behind these brahmanical policies