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Holy Cow!

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Now and then, when I am going around in the Kathmandu valley, almost always, I get a recurring  feeling. The thing that bothers me somewhere subtly hides the useless pride of a religion and nothing could bother me more than those stray holy cows. What a holy thing it has been!  The irony is, some of the major political parties in Nepal portray cow as their symbol, take pride in calling it a national animal, yet they fail to address such problems.  Scorching rays of the Sun penetrates through every inch of skin, smoke and dust pave the wind pipe , who knows for how long she's been starving? Yet, she is your holy. I am not an expert keeping data on the rise or the fall of the number of stray cows, but I am sure that the number will grow if it is not seriously handled. Most of these stray cows are abandoned at a very young age and are the victims of the greedy world we live in. Most of them are the male calves that serve no purpose to the owners. These owners are sca