Me and my husband live in Potherikancham village. This is not our own village. Years ago we lived in Tharumba village of Guhar district. We were thrown out of the village because my husband accidentally ran his truck over a cow in the night when he was returning home after 18 hours of continuous driving. Cows are considered as mothers according to hinduism so no one forgave him when he asked for forgiveness. The panchayat called him a shame for hinduism and drunkyard whose senses were all asleep while driving. Listening to all this was not enough, they asked us to call a priest and worship the soul of the cow for its departure in peace,feed the beggars for seven days, donate grains and clothing to the priest,fast till the prayers and offerings to the cows soul is over and then feed the villagers eleven days after the worship. My husband was not a man of millions that it would cost us nothing. It was too much but there was no choice. We sold the small plot of land we had but it did