By Siddharth Singh (c) 2009

A house in a village in one of the poorest states of India – Rajasthan. Guess what the walls are made of? I’ll buy you a beer if you can guess correctly.

Tip: There’s another reason Hindus don’t eat beef.

Lifeless

When I took this photo, I didn’t realize there is something wrong with the cow.  I have been used to watching cows all the time in rural Rajasthan, in Western India. Rajasthan is a very dry state and is the location of the Thar desert, which is India’s largest. When I put it up on Facebook, an American friend of mine commented, “sad!”. It was only then that it struck me that this cow is impoverished! It is lifeless due to the lack of water and green grass. I was so very used to looking at such cows since I was very young, that somewhere subconsciously such a sight got registered as being  normal.