India’s Dalits strike back at centuries of oppression by letting dead cows rot on the streets — Quartz
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Politics over the cow, deemed holy by many Hindus, has roiled India for years. In recent times, it has turned nasty, with Indians lynching or humiliating fellow Indians on mere suspicion of having killed cows or eaten beef.
In the latest instance, four young men skinning a dead cow, along with another aged person, were mercilessly thrashed by a group of cow-protection vigilantes in Gujarat’s Una on July 11. Stripped and tethered to a car, the four were paraded publicly in Una even as they were walloped for almost five hours. One woman, too, was assaulted. And all the while, despite being approached, the police failed to act.