'Beef Festival' in India Sets Off Outrage and Misogyny
What started out as a debate over the validity of the cow -- to many Indians, the holy cow -- as a source of meat was overwhelmed, on the day, by a conflagration of vehicle-burning and teargas, and, in the days that followed, by a firestorm of upper-caste outrage, conspiracy theory, and, most strangely (but revealingly), by sickening misogyny.