James Staples' Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian: The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India concludes that caste continues to remain central to Indian food-ways but there is little attempt to relate caste factor to patriarchy and class or religion in a way to offer new nsights.

August 3 marks exactly three months since the start of the mayhem in Manipur. Fears of state collusion and complicity in the violence are growing with time.