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It’s being felt that a comprehensive rehabilitation model may help restore the economic value of stray cows and in the process address the emotive aspect of their protection. It is to be seen if state governments will emulate the process. Abandoned on roads for being unproductive, scores of stray cows brought to the government cattle ponds located at villages Burj Powat, Gadolia and Khokhar Kalan in Ludhiana, Fatehgarh Sahib and Mansa districts of  Punjab  have resumed yielding milk. This has led to poor people of the areas approaching the cattle’s caretakers with the request that they be allowed to take them to their homes with the promise of looking after them. The development is being seen by many in the field as a noticeable opening of a possibility of their rehabilitation in a scenario where the freely roaming hordes of cows are largely being considered a menace for humans. A crude line of thought, that packing them off for slaughtering could be better riddance...

वेद सृष्टि का असीम ज्ञान हैं। इनमें निहित तथ्य उतने ही वैज्ञानिक और तार्किक हैं जितने वे प्राचीन और पारंपरिक हैं। वैदिक संस्कृति में समाज को सम्प्रदाय, क्षेत्र, जन्म, रंग-रूप अथवा प्रतिष्ठा के बल पर विभाजित नहीं किया जाता था, ये सभी आधुनिक संकल्पनाएं हैं। अलग-अलग  वैदिक ऋषियों ने मानव जाति का दैविक (सभ्य)  और आसुरिक (असभ्य) प्रवृत्तियों में वर्गीकरण किया और ये वर्ग सभी संस्कृतियों और सम्प्रदायों में उपस्थित है। यहां तक कि एक ही जीव में अलग-अलग समय और स्थिति में ये दोनों ही प्रवृत्तियां देखने को मिलती हैं।  द्वौ भूतसर्गो लोकेअस्मिन्दैव आसुर एव च । दैवो विस्तरशः प्रोक्त आसुरम पार्थ मे शृणु ॥ भगवद गीता १६.६  ॥  भगवान् कृष्ण असुरों के गुणों का अवलोकन करते हुए कहते हैं कि संसार में दो ही प्रकार के जन होते हैं- पहले वे जिनकी प्रवृत्ति दैविक है और दूसरे वे जिनमें आसुरिक प्रवृत्ति प्रबल होती है।  आसुरिक प्रवृत्ति के लोगों में विवेक शक्ति, सदाचार और सत्य का अभाव होता है । उनकी विचारधारा विनाशकारी होती है। अन्य जीव जंतुओं को कष्ट व पीड़ा पहुंचाना, कि...

Back in 1993, the spread of Mad Cow Disease took toll of many across the globe and as a result, many stopped consuming beef products. We may stop consuming beef, but there is no escaping the cow and the disease and infection carried by the many products we make out of its carcass. The cattle by-products today find their way into almost everything around us and have the potential to transmit bovine spongiform encephalopathy from an infected cow to us. Bovine gelatin, which is made by treating the bones of a cow with acid, finds its way into gel capsules, food products such jellybeans, marshmallows and instant gelatin, as a setting agent for ice-creams and cheesecakes, and as a coat on tablets, to bind photographic films, to name a few. Fat from the dead cow makes an appearance in our bathrooms as soap and toothpaste and on the road as automobile tyres and asphalt roads. Glycerin derived from cow fat is used in cosmetics and even in wars, as the explosive nitroglycerine. Its hooves a...