How boiling beef pot averted Brazil aftertaste

May 13, 2016 13:02

The Hindutva campaign against beef and the draconian laws it has spawned in states like Maharashtra and Haryana may have angered foreign tourists and annoyed potential investors overseas but it has unexpectedly enhanced the Narendra Modi government's balance sheet in diplomacy.

Brazil's unassailable standing as the world's biggest supplier of cows of Indian origin both for beef products and for the dairy industry was a critical factor which ruled out its now-suspended President Dilma Rousseff as chief guest at the Republic Day this year in favour of French President Francois Hollande. Read more

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