‘Holy cow is dividing India’, French comic book features cow vigilantes to illustrate dangers of Hindutva ...

A comic book by a French journalist and author William de Tamaris has used the crackdown on beef and violence of cow vigilantes to highlight the dangers of Hindutva and the rise of Hindu nationalism in India. The 30-page comic book introduces French readers the concepts of Hindutva and the propaganda for a Hindu nation.

“Here I was, supposedly, in the land of tolerance but the hate in the discourse of so-called gau rakshaks was shocking,” the journalist de Tamaris told the Scroll. “In France, people still believe India is the land of Gandhi but that no longer holds true,” he explained the reason behind the comic.

“We were inspired to do the story after I met Vijaykant Chauhan, who calls himself a gau rakshak,” de Tamaris added.

The French journalists had visited Maharashtra, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Kerala to trace the cow vigilantes. The gau rakshak Chauhan told the French team that if he were Nathuram Godse, he would kill Gandhi all over again. More + images...

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