Poster show on cow educative, impressive
Tirupati,Dec4,New Indian Express

A poster exhibition on cow and its significance in Indian culture and tradition was the cynosure of all eyes during the just concluded three-day national conference 'Vande Gonmataram' here.
Four dozen colourful posters providing detailed information on the cow and and its importance in the Indian tradition were on display during the conference where the sacred animal was depicted as one of the four pillars of Indian culture.
The posters also took viewers through the informative lane pronouncing the value of the six products obtained from cow - milk, ghee, curds, urine, dung and rochana.
More attractive was the images of five celestial cows - Bahula, Nanda, Surabhi, Susila and Subhadra - and the sages they were associated with. Back to ground reality, a brief description was given on the number of cows needed to meet the defficiency of milk supply in the country.
"There is an interesting poster on the difference between Indian and foreign cow breeds and another describing Vedic terminology for cows in various stages of life," ShyamMitra, a visitor to the exhibition, said.
Indian breeds - Amruthamahal, Nimari, Vechur, Punganoor, Dangi, Kankuj,' Malvi, Hallikar, Sahiwal, Kangayan.Harinava, Gir and Ponwar -with with their physical description, milk yield and load-carrying capacity formed the theme of another poster.
The story of Sage Chayvanayi, a great worshipper of cows, becoming a cow when caught in fisherman's net, was presented in a lucid style. Another poster painted the cow as a nourisher and despcribed how to take care of the cow. There were posters listing out synonyms of the word 'Gau' and the praise of the cow in the Vedas.
"Posters on Panchagavya and its effects, chemical composition of cow's urine, why cow's milk is compared to ambrosia, bio-enrichment of drugs and nutrients by Gomutra and different uses of cow's urine were very interesting. We were unaware of all such things and thanks to the poster exhibition, we can tell our children about the cow in detail," Jyothi, a delegate from Madhya Pradesh, said.
The man behind the poster was septuagenarian academician Prof M A Lakshmi Thatacharaya from Melkote, near Mysore.
He runs Samskruthi Foundation, which has a collection of literature on cows and their care in traditional manner. The professor, who maintains a herd of Hallikar milch cows passed to him from his ancestors, improved the purity of the breed up to 92 percent by selective breeding.
"It was an effort to tell people more about Gomata and impress upon them to conserve the valuable creature, which has been the base of Indian civilisation," he told Express.