Kaabah

Published on 9th May, 2021, in Mid-day. Humans found food in the plant and animal kingdoms. They were first foragers of fruits and roots, and hunters of animals. Then, they became cultivators of the land and herders of goats, pigs, sheep and cattle. Many tribes in India tell the story of how Thakurdev taught them to domesticate cows and cultivate rice, thus giving them an alternative to hunting and gathering. But this caused friction between those who wanted to wander and those who wanted to settle, the hunter/herders and the forager/farmers. The settlers valued land, and so boundaries, while the wanderers believed in no such ..