Word: mattewara
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...calamity." What outraged them was that 200 cows living in a large rest home maintained by Punjab state died last week of malnutrition and exposure. Two M.P.s of the right-wing, ultra Hindu Jana Sangh Party related the horrible details: a thousand cattle had been crowded together at Mattewara in flimsy bamboo sheds, sinking in mud and dung until they keeled over to provide grisly feasts for vultures and jackals. Mightily embarrassed, the state government sent its director of animal husbandry flying from Chandigarh to move 100 cows from the overcrowded rest home to another cow rest home nearby...
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