[Reader-list] Rs125 crore spent on Mutton in one day in Kashmir....

[Babu Sundara]

Friends,
I find several distinct issues likes like rituals, poverty, finance
management, role of state, wastage, etc are being mixed up in this
discussion. However, I do understand the linkages.

To go back to the initial point .......on meat consumption on "religious"
festival/day...... be it Muslims, Meatarian Hindus or
Christians..........the consumption would be obviously proportional to the
population of respective  social groups and their ritual systems........if
you go by the population of J&K and the statistics of 24 lakhs kg being
consumed on Eid celebration....then the consumptions is very less for state
which has  80 lakh population with Muslim majority .... ...and further....if
one is aware of the Kashmiri cuisine.....wazwaan......then the quantity of
meat is self explanatory .

On the other hand if you want to go into the economy of wasting food
products....then please consider, that these meat is consumed by
people....unlike milk, sandal, turmeric, honey, oil, rose water, drinking
water, etc that is poured on statues, coconut and pumpkins that are broken
in front of street temples, trees and leaves that are cut for decoration,
and beyond all statues that are dumped in rivers........please also take
into account the lavish expenses during deaths.......burning pyre with
sandal wood and ghee............the extravagant wastes during weddings of
all communities.........if you want to draw link to ritual and
poverty.....then please dont underestimate dowries...........lot of poor
Brahmins of south India suffered because they could not generated money for
the diamond nose and ear ring...which was considered minimum with every
bride..........on the issue of Kashmiri poverty......the Kashmiris them
selves claim that they are actually rich and the Indian/central
state/government has kept them in the vicious cycle of poverty..........

On PM's statement with regard to poverty and militancy......its just the
same old unproductive rhetoric....

regards,
Sundara babu


On 22/12/2007, S.Fatima <sadiafwahidi at yahoo.co.in> wrote:

> Dear Pawan
> Let me tell you spending Rs.125 crore on animal
> slaughter has nothing to do with poverty in Kashmir or
> anywhere else. On Baqr Eid, Muslims everywhere (even
> the poor ones) would spend huge sums of money to
> express their religous fervour. Forget Kashmir, the
> statistics on animal slaughter during Eid in other
> places such as UP or Delhi will also astonish you.
>
> In the context of development, poverty should be
> defined not as the lack of money, but the lack of
> proper managment of money. And that's what the PM
> thinks of when he mentions backwardness.
>
>
>
>
> --- Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >   *Kashmir's Bakr Eid spend crosses Rs125 crore *
> > http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1140648
> >
> >
> > "......
> >
> > More than four lakh animals will be slaughtered in
> > Kashmir; around 70,000 in
> > Srinagar alone. "People have spent huge amounts of
> > money on buying animals
> > for offering sacrifices this Eid. We have fixed a
> > rate of Rs90 per kg of
> > meat. More than 24 lakh kgs of meat will be
> > distributed," said Dr Shafat
> > Kakroo, general manager J&K Sheep Development
> > Board...
> >
> > ........"
> >
> >
> >
> > And they have the gall to say that they are
> > economically impoverished....and
> > then our PM Dr. Singh attributes the emergence of
> > terrorism to economic
> > backwardness.......What CoolAid is he drinking?
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