{"id":4288,"date":"2009-03-05T05:20:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T23:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3302"},"modified":"2009-03-05T05:20:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T23:50:01","slug":"animal-alchemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/animal-alchemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Alchemy"},"content":{"rendered":"
Graeme Wood, in a feature<\/a> on Lalu Prasad Yadav’s achievements as India’s railways minister, writes:<\/p>\n When Lalu presented his latest budget to Parliament on February 13, he bragged, “Hathi ko cheetah bana diya” (“I have turned an elephant into a cheetah”). What’s his secret?<\/p>\n “Cow dung,” he says. “I have 350 cows, including bulls. Cow dung—no need of gas.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n A few paragraphs later, Wood quotes a civil servant named Sudhir Kumar as saying, “If there is money lying around, we can smell it.” I wish these quotes had been used out of context, they would have made India seem so delightfully exotic: a land where you apply cow dung on an elephant to turn it into a cheetah, and where natives can smell money. Sadly, Wood sticks to responsible journalism and does nothing of the kind. <\/p>\n Still, that cow dung bit isn’t quite explained…<\/p>\n (HT: Arun<\/a>. Previous posts on cows: 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>, 4<\/a>, 5<\/a>, 6<\/a>, 7<\/a>, 8<\/a>, 9<\/a>, 10<\/a>, 11<\/a>, 12<\/a>, 13<\/a>, 14<\/a>, 15<\/a>, 16<\/a>, 17<\/a>, 18<\/a>, 19<\/a>, 20<\/a>, 21<\/a>, 22<\/a>, 23<\/a>, 24<\/a>, 25<\/a>, 26<\/a>, 27<\/a>, 28<\/a>, 29<\/a>, 30<\/a>, 31<\/a> , 32<\/a>, 33<\/a>, 34<\/a>, 35<\/a>, 36<\/a>, 37<\/a>, 38<\/a>, 39<\/a>, 40<\/a>, 41<\/a>, 42<\/a>, 43<\/a>, 44<\/a>, 45<\/a>, 46<\/a>, 47<\/a>, 48<\/a>, 49<\/a>, 50<\/a>, 51<\/a>, 52<\/a>, 53<\/a>, 54<\/a>, 55<\/a>, 56<\/a>, 57<\/a>, 58<\/a>, 59<\/a>, 60<\/a>, 61<\/a>, 62<\/a>, 63<\/a>, 64<\/a>, 65<\/a>, 66<\/a>, 67<\/a>, 68<\/a>, 69<\/a>, 70<\/a>, 71<\/a>, 72<\/a>, 73<\/a>, 74<\/a>, 75<\/a>, 76<\/a>, 77<\/a>, 78<\/a>, 79<\/a>, 80<\/a>, 81<\/a>, 82<\/a>, 83<\/a>, 84<\/a>, 85<\/a>, 86<\/a>, 87<\/a>, 88<\/a>, 89<\/a>, 90<\/a>, 91<\/a>, 92<\/a>, 93<\/a>, 94<\/a>, 95<\/a>, 96<\/a>, 97<\/a>, 98<\/a>, 99<\/a>, 100<\/a>, 101<\/a>, 102<\/a>, 103<\/a>, 104<\/a>, 105<\/a>, 106<\/a>, 107<\/a>, 108<\/a>, 109<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Graeme Wood, in a feature<\/a> on Lalu Prasad Yadav’s achievements as India’s railways minister, writes:<\/p>\n When Lalu presented his latest budget to Parliament on February 13, he bragged, “Hathi ko cheetah bana diya” (“I have turned an elephant into a cheetah”). What’s his secret?<\/p>\n “Cow dung,” he says. “I have 350 cows, including bulls. Cow dung—no need of gas.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n A few paragraphs later, Wood quotes a civil servant named Sudhir Kumar as saying, “If there is money lying around, we can smell it.” I wish these quotes had been used out of context, they would have made India seem so delightfully exotic: a land where you apply cow dung on an elephant to turn it into a cheetah, and where natives can smell money. Sadly, Wood sticks to responsible journalism and does nothing of the kind. <\/p>\n Still, that cow dung bit isn’t quite explained…<\/p>\n (HT: Arun<\/a>. Previous posts on cows: 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>, 4<\/a>, 5<\/a>, 6<\/a>, 7<\/a>, 8<\/a>, 9<\/a>, 10<\/a>, 11<\/a>, 12<\/a>, 13<\/a>, 14<\/a>, 15<\/a>, 16<\/a>, 17<\/a>, 18<\/a>, 19<\/a>, 20<\/a>, 21<\/a>, 22<\/a>, 23<\/a>, 24<\/a>, 25<\/a>, 26<\/a>, 27<\/a>, 28<\/a>, 29<\/a>, 30<\/a>, 31<\/a> , 32<\/a>, 33<\/a>, 34<\/a>, 35<\/a>, 36<\/a>, 37<\/a>, 38<\/a>, 39<\/a>, 40<\/a>, 41<\/a>, 42<\/a>, 43<\/a>, 44<\/a>, 45<\/a>, 46<\/a>, 47<\/a>, 48<\/a>, 49<\/a>, 50<\/a>, 51<\/a>, 52<\/a>, 53<\/a>, 54<\/a>, 55<\/a>, 56<\/a>, 57<\/a>, 58<\/a>, 59<\/a>, 60<\/a>, 61<\/a>, 62<\/a>, 63<\/a>, 64<\/a>, 65<\/a>, 66<\/a>, 67<\/a>, 68<\/a>, 69<\/a>, 70<\/a>, 71<\/a>, 72<\/a>, 73<\/a>, 74<\/a>, 75<\/a>, 76<\/a>, 77<\/a>, 78<\/a>, 79<\/a>, 80<\/a>, 81<\/a>, 82<\/a>, 83<\/a>, 84<\/a>, 85<\/a>, 86<\/a>, 87<\/a>, 88<\/a>, 89<\/a>, 90<\/a>, 91<\/a>, 92<\/a>, 93<\/a>, 94<\/a>, 95<\/a>, 96<\/a>, 97<\/a>, 98<\/a>, 99<\/a>, 100<\/a>, 101<\/a>, 102<\/a>, 103<\/a>, 104<\/a>, 105<\/a>, 106<\/a>, 107<\/a>, 108<\/a>, 109<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,3,24,4,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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