The songs you sing, the languages you speak, the dresses you wear, the food you eat, this is your culture. And from whence is culture born? The mountains, rivers, wind and sun. Take the Indian subcontinent. Indians have been wearing loincloths and slippers for thousands of years. They ate and slept on the floor. It is because the region is mostly torrid. And when it rains, it really comes down. The farmer tilling the land with his cows wears a bamboo rain hat to cover himself from the rain. His rain hat could have been made from another material. But it is bamboo. Bamboos grow everywhere. Bamboo furniture, bamboo hand fans, bamboo flutes, cakes made with the help of bamboos. A bamboo culture is born this way. Now the Sacred Indian Cow. Any other animal could have been declared sacred. But it is the cow. The cow might have been…
