The Law and Society Committee at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore hosted Professor S.N. Balagangadhara (popularly known as \u2018Balu\u2019) to deliver a lecture on \u2018Banning Beef: Caste, Religion, and the Constitution of India\u2019 on November 18, 2015. Prof. Balu is an internationally acclaimed philosopher. He specialises in\u00a0Religion and Culture Studies, and is a Professor at the Ghent University in Belgium, where he runs\u00a0a research centre\u00a0called ‘Vergelijkende Cultuurwetenschap’\u00a0(‘Comparative Science of Cultures’). He has also held the co-chair of the Hinduism Unit at the American Academy of Religion in the past.<\/p>\n
In his lecture, Prof. Balu spoke about the arguments outlined in his recent article titled \u2018Beef Bans, Beef Parties, and Sacred Cows\u2019. Amidst the ongoing debate on intolerance and communal disharmony, the interactive session served as an propellant of a rational discourse within the University on the issue of banning beef and the consequent unfurling of the various incidents of mob lynching in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Reported by Sonali Charak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawschoolnews","category-others"],"yoast_head":"\n