Beef, Murderous Rage, Public Lynching: A Look under the Surface

摘要

The rumors of beef being eaten, the murderous rage evoked and the public lynching in September 2015 of a 58 year old Muslim man Aqlakh in Bisada village next to New Delhi, the capital of India, compels psychoanalytical gaze. Whether the meat was in fact beef is irrelevant and steps taken by the investigating agencies like sending the meat for forensic analysis can only feed into the notion that killing and murder of residents of a house in which beef is found is acceptable. We traverse from the manifest to the hidden. The cow is revered as Mother by a sizable section of upper caste