04 August, 2007

Mohit Ahlawat and Milk

I have been ignoring cow links sent to me recently, determined not to continue that particular meme. But this is too hard to resist:

We heard that actor Mohit Ahlawat bought himself a herd of cows six years ago. The health-conscious actor was upset about the adulterated milk that was being delivered to his house, and this instigated him to buy the cows.

When we asked him about it, he said, “Why doesn’t the BMC allow one to keep cows? What’s the issue? Where I come from, everyone has cows.”

Indeed. But it must be clarified that Ahlawat loves not cows, but milk. He is quoted as saying:

I have even tasted tiger’s milk. I was in Kenya’s jungle safari when the local men, who were about seven-feet-tall, asked me if I wanted to taste the milk of a tiger. I got pretty excited and they served it to me in a bowl. I cannot describe the taste of the tiger’s milk but it was the most thrilling experience.

I have tasted goat’s milk too. People say that Gandhiji used to drink only goat’s milk.

If I had to live my life all over again, I would opt to be a tiger-milker. Such a challenge that would be.

(Previous posts on cows: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 , 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93.)

Update: Nandan Pandit, Onkar Joshi and reader Ashwin write in separately to inform me that there are no tigers in Africa. But that’s the fun, no?