[Assam] A Coke rival in India - The RSS Cola

Tue Feb 10 19:49:42 PST 2009

C-da,

I  think Morarji Desai popularized the concept when as 80 yearold Indian Prime Minister he was the epitome of Indin manhood. And his (open) secret was Morarji Cola - as everyone knows http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?title=The%20Morarji%20Cola&artid=afb2stsVPtM=&type= 
just google Morarji Cola - urine therapy.

I think the alleged RSS Cola concept is based on cow urine - and cow is holy mother - so mother's urine ... thats too much.  I can understand not eating cow meat (mother's meat) just as unlike Asians -Westerners don't eat Best Friend (dog's) meat unless there is emergency (like in Gold Rush days of Alaska -see movie Call of the Wild or read the book).

Umesh Sharma

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--- On Tue, 10/2/09, Ram Sarangapani <assamrs at gmail.com> wrote:
From: Ram Sarangapani <assamrs at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Assam] A Coke rival in India - The RSS Cola
To: "A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world" <assam at assamnet.org>
Date: Tuesday, 10 February, 2009, 11:26 AM

>Aw c'mon Ram!  It may be safer than, say, Dilli 's tap water .

Yes C'da.. unfortunately, items like hygiene and health safety are not high
up on the totem pole in India.  Be it drinking water, air polution,
drainage, or garbage pickup, they always on the back burner.

>Uninfected urine is supposedly like distilled water.

Well, that's what astronauts keep telling us. But, wild horses couldn't
drag
me to 'test the waters' ... pun intended, and that too in India.

>I must say, this is one of Hindu Science's finest moments :-).

Now, now, you can't take a broad swipe here. First, is there something
called a "Hindu Science"? Unless, you are talking about ayurvedic.

This, you well know is the RSS and Ram Sena (don't know why they took my
name?:) stuff. Most mainstream Hindus will have nothing to do
--Ram

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net>
wrote:

> Aw c'mon Ram!  It may be safer than, say, Dilli 's tap water .
>
> See:
>
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Delhi/DJB_scrambles_to_fix_water_in_Vasant_Kunj/articleshow/4055490.cms
>
> Uninfected urine is supposedly like distilled water.
> I must say, this is one of Hindu Science's finest moments :-).
>
> c-da
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> At 9:04 AM -0600 2/10/09, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
>
>> Well! that's it .... no more soft drinks for me while in India.
>>
>> Ugh!
>>
>> --Ram
>>
>> ____________________
>>
>>
>>
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/coke-has-a-rival-rsss-cow-urine-cola/421641/
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>> [image: Indian Express]
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>>  Coke has a rival: RSS's cow urine cola
>> *Rajeev khanna* Posted online: Feb 10, 2009 at 1500 hrs
>> *Dehradun : *The RSS has found something to give the popular colas and
>> cold
>> drinks a run for their money: bovine urine. The Sangh's Cow
Protection
>> Department is planning to produce a soft drink with this magic
ingredient
>> as
>> base, and believes it will sweep the market.
>>
>> The head of the Hardwar-based department, Om Prakash, said: "We
refer to
>> gau
>> ark (cow urine) as gau jal (cow water) as it has immense potential to
cure
>> various diseases. We have developed a soft drink formula with gau jal
as
>> the
>> base and it has been sent to a laboratory at Lucknow for
testing."
>>
>> Once the tests show positive results, he added, the department will
think
>> about its packaging, preservation and marketing.
>>
>> While the RSS is at the task alone right now, once the drink is ready
to
>> be
>> taken to the market, the Cow Protection Department might seek the help
of
>> the Uttarakhand Government in the operations.
>>
>> "It will be a revolution of sorts. The acceptance of cow urine as
a potent
>> medicine is increasing day by day and once it comes as a cold drink,
its
>> demand will definitely increase," Prakash claimed.
>>
>> Stating that several colas are harmful to the extent that they can be
>> substituted for pesticides, he asserted that their soft drink with cow
>> urine
>> will not only be natural but cost-effective too. "In addition to
this, it
>> will prove and justify the high stature accorded to a cow in Indian
>> culture."
>>
>> Cow urine, in fact, ranks quite high on the RSS list of priorities.
"We
>> discuss its importance at various meetings and public programmes. We
have
>> also been circulating pamphlets about its medicinal value," said
Om
>> Prakash,
>> who has been actively involved in the task of cow protection and
promoting
>> bovine urine for the last four decades.
>>
>> He names products ranging from toothpaste, shampoo, soap, face powder
and
>> shaving lotion to balm, biscuits, incense sticks, phenyl, mosquito
coils
>> and
>> distemper which are being made from cow urine and cow dung.
>>
>> He asserts that tiles made up of cow dung have been found to be fire -
and
>> water-resistant and can ward off radiation.
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