Letter from a Gau-Mata in Rajasthan textbooks

Rajasthan’s love for cows is no longer a moot point. The state government (the only one in the country to have a ministry for the bovine) has introduced a cow’s letter as a chapter in Class V textbooks.

The chapter, titled ‘Kaamdhenu‘, has a letter written in first person by a cow to her “sons and daughters” telling them about the animal’s mythological importance among others.

The officials claim that the chapter has been added to create awareness about the mammal and how its benevolence towards all of us. Just to emphasise the cow’s divine quality, the animal’s portrait in the textbook includes a pantheon of gods tattooed on its body.