Thanks to the success and popularity of Slumdog Millionaire, India seems to be everywhere these days! Bollywood is becoming a big deal, and why not? Have you ever seen Lagaan or Om Shanti Om? Big, extravagant, fun, colorful, over-the-top, and full of extraordinarily beautiful women wearing fabulous clothes and dancing their butts off. I’m definitely a fan. But to illustrate just how different our cultures are, I wanted to share this little news item…
Does your Pepsi lack pep? Is your Coke not the real thing? India’s Hindu nationalist movement apparently has the answer: a new soft drink made from cow urine.
“Don’t worry, it won’t smell like urine and will be tasty too,” he told The Times from his headquarters in Hardwar, one of four holy cities on the River Ganges.
The bovine brew is in the final stages of development by the Cow Protection Department of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), India’s biggest and oldest Hindu nationalist group, according to the man who makes it.
Om Prakash, the head of the department, said the drink – called “gau jal”, or “cow water” – in Sanskrit was undergoing laboratory tests and would be launched “very soon, maybe by the end of this year”.
[...] Read more at TimesOnline
