This is such a typical picture of Auroville - the red soil, the trees and the hoards of cows walking around. I think the cow problem got much worse after the tsunami when there was a lot of money swirling around with NGO's not quite sure how to spend it. A lot of people asked for cows which various charities provided. I think, though, that many people had problems caring for them - affording the food and so on. As a result there now seem to be many more cows than there used to be and some of them can be very aggressive. Of course it may be that fewer people now want to keep cows and just stopped looking after them.
We have a lot more problems with them in Buddha Garden than I remember when we first cme here. If we are going to plant any trees we have to not only put up a fence, but a very secure fence. With so many cows around I think they are all getting more hungry and therefore more willing to knock down fences to get food.
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