
... not just marketed as fertilizer.
Photo essay: Folklore in India’s villages

This industry of cow products employed several women who were paid $3 a day.
Photo essay: Folklore in India’s villages

Photo essay: Folklore in India’s villages

... it was rolled into incense sticks.
Photo essay: Folklore in India’s villages

In the small settlement of Nawai, Rajasthan, we went to a “convent for cows,” as our tour guide called it. It was a goshala, a protective shelter for treating neglected cows according to Hindu teaching. This one had cow-sheds built to house hundreds of cows “rescued from being sent to various slaughterhouses across the country” by the non-Hindus. On the day of our visit there were 700 cows in the goshala.
Photo essay: Folklore in India’s villages