Eternal Students at Bovine University

According to the criteria laid out by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his celebrated Four Freedoms speech, life is a mixed bag for millions of Indian cows. On the plus side, they are not confined to grim facilities that exist solely to turn their bovine inmates into hangar steaks. But though free-roaming Indian cows are spared the fear of the slaughterhouse, they rarely live in the lap of luxury—food and medical care are in short supply, and those weakened by these deprivations may be spirited off t...