A photography project showing women wearing cow masks and asking whether they are less important than cattle in India has gone viral in the country and earned its 23-year-old creator the ire of Hindu nationalist trolls. "I am perturbed by the fact that in my country cows are considered more important than a woman, that it takes much longer for a woman who is raped or assaulted to get justice than for a cow, which many Hindus consider a sacred animal," Delhi-based photographer Sujatro Ghosh told the BBC. India, like SA, is often in the news for crimes against women and according to government statistics a rape is reported every 15 minutes. "These cases go on for years in the courts before the guilty are punished, whereas when a cow is slaughtered, Hindu extremist groups immediately go and kill or beat up whoever they suspect of slaughter." The project, Ghosh says, is "his way of protesting" against the growing influence of the vigilante cow-protection groups that have become embolden...
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