This Week's Mystery: The Cows are Yellow!

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We were in Mysore, 3 hours southeast of Bangalore, on our way to the government silk factory, when 3 cows across the street caught my attention. After 3 months in India, I usually don't notice cows anymore. We've seen cows in the city, cows standing on a thin grassy median surrounded by relentless Indian traffic, cows on the beach, cows on the train station platform, cows in restaurants, cows in temples. Big cows, little cows, camel cows, cows with painted horns adorned like an Indian bus, sleeping cows, walking cows, stampeding cows, frisky cows, even self-pleasuring cows (seriously). I usually don't give them a second glance.



But these cows were yellow!

I don't know why they're yellow, or how they're yellow. All the white spots on the cows we saw in Mysore were dyed yellow.

There was a tree blooming with yellow flowers, and we thought that might have been used to dye the cows' white hair. But we're not really sure.

We were in Mysore during the last week of January. There there were no festivals we knew of going on that week. But in India, there are always festivals and holidays of various religions and cultures that we often know nothing about.

Why were all the cows yellow?

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[MamaCta]

The Internet is a wonderful thing.....
http://worldcowgirl.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/in-mysore-india-happy-sankranthi/