BJP effect: Beef is vanishing from India’s Bengal, forcing diet changes
- Kolkata, India – It’s 12pm on a weekday, and the lane in the city’s Tangra neighbourhood facing the sole bovine slaughterhouse in Kolkata is empty.
- Run by the city’s municipal corporation, the colonial-era building in the capital of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal looks like a fortress with its giant iron gates locked from the inside.
- A peek through a gap between the gates reveals schoolboys running around and playing in the vast empty campus.
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- Kolkata, India – It’s 12pm on a weekday, and the lane in the city’s Tangra neighbourhood facing the sole bovine slaughterhouse in Kolkata is empty.
- Run by the city’s municipal corporation, the colonial-era building in the capital of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal looks like a fortress with its giant iron gates locked from the inside.
- A peek through a gap between the gates reveals schoolboys running around and playing in the vast empty campus.
Sources: Al Jazeera