How laddu sweets quarreled Hindus across the country (5 photos)

Have you ever tried the Indian sweet laddu? These are those red balls served in sweet syrup. Who knew that one day a simple cake would almost split the country in half!





Cardboard Modi watches as volunteers make thousands of laddu!

What happened at the Tirupati temple

In the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, there is a temple called Tirupati, where, according to a tradition that has been going on for many hundreds of years, laddu is distributed to believers as a treat. It can afford it, it is practically the richest temple in the country, it receives hundreds of millions of dollars a year. And it spends about one million on ingredients for laddu. The main expense item is ghee for frying laddu.

And recently a scandal broke out! The chief minister of the state accused his Christian predecessor of allowing laddu to be cooked in the Tirupati temple using ghee, to which animal fats were added. But most of the temple parishioners are vegetarians! That is, the entire sanctity of the thousand-year-old temple was immediately called into question.



Because of the spices, you can't tell what kind of oil it is by the smell

The minister filed a lawsuit against the previous head of the temple because such laddus insult the highest caste - the Brahmins.

It is believed that even the smell of cooking animal fats is unclean and defiles their spiritual field. While eating whatever God gives, including meat - is the lot of the Dalits, the lowest caste. They have no time for pickiness in hunger.

That is, laddus with animal fats actually equated the Brahmins with the Dalits! How can you tolerate such an insult right in your face!? The scandal was huge, and the Supreme Court of India even scolded the state minister for making a statement before conducting an investigation. That is, he had no evidence, but the scandal happened throughout the state, many in the country considered it a deliberate slap in the face of Hindus.





Have you tried it? Yes, I do, for me sweets are not India's strong point

Moreover, the Modi government has been promoting the idea of ​​"pure vegetarianism" as a national ideology since 2014. All for the sake of forming a monolithic Hindu identity that hides caste differences. The government even subsidizes mandatory vegetarian school lunches.

That's why many people thought it was just sabotage! The previous leader decided to "bring down" the upper-caste Hindus with animal fats in laddu.



Some temples distribute masala, that's more interesting, I love masala

Politics in the Indian manner, through food

In general, I can't remember countries where politics is not so closely mixed with food. In some states, cow slaughter is banned, and radicals attack meat processing plants. In others, they even try to ban the cooking of eggs, and restaurants are constantly checked for mixing vegetarian and non-vegetarian food.



What is that? Giant laddus?!

In 1857, when another rebellion broke out in India against the British, it was largely provoked by the fact that the British claimed that they were lubricating rifle cartridges with beef and pork fat. Which equally whitened both Hindu and Muslim soldiers in the British army.

So do you think he ordered such oil for the laddus through an oversight or was it a political underhand move?