Humour
Indian Cow,
He is 4 Footed Animal
by MAHESH PANDEY
The following is an essay written by a candidate, Shri Mahesh Pandey, at a UPSC entrance examination for the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). It was submitted by Shri Sumeet Hire to the Marathi daily news paper, Loksatta.
He is the cow. The cow is a successful animal. Also he is 4 footed, and because he is female, he gives milks. He is same like God, sacred to Hindus and useful to man. But he has got four legs together. Two are forward and two are afterwards. His whole body can be utilised for use. More so the milk. Milk comes from 4 taps attached to his basement.
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What can it do? Various ghee, butter, cream, curd, why and the condensed milk and so forth. And he is also useful to cobbler, watermans and mankind generally. His motion is slow only because he is of lazy species, and also his gober [dung] is much useful to farmers, plants and trees and is used to make flat cakes, in hand and drying sun.
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Cow is the only animal that extricates after eating. Then afterwards she chew with his teeth whom are situated in the inside of the mouth. He is incessantly in the meadows in the grass. His only attacking and defending organ is the horns, specially so when he is got child. This is done by knowing his head whereby he causes the weapond to be parralleled to the ground of the earth and instantly proceed with great velocity forewards. He has got tails also, situated in the backyard, but not like similar animals. It has hairs on the other end of the other side. This is done to frighten away the flies which alight on his cohesive body hereupon he gives hit with it.
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The palms of his feet are soft onto the touch. So the grasses head is not crushed. At night time have poses by looking down on the ground and he shouts. His eyes and nose are like his other relatives. This is the cow ...
[Courtesy: Loksatta]
March 19, 2009
Conversation about this article
1: Simran (Oceanside, California, U.S.A.), March 20, 2009, 2:08 AM.
Holy Cow! :)
2: Punardeep Sandhu (Simi Valley, California, U.S.A.), March 24, 2009, 5:58 PM.
No wonder you need to pay out crazy amounts of money to get selected to one of these Indian government jobs.