Hyderabad, July 18 -- Be it the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic or cancer, many unscientific claims have been made about cow urine or anything associated with the bovine being useful in treating both ailments. And many of those claims have come from none other than people from the ruling Bharatiya Janata PArty (BJP).

And the cow piss obsession seems to have reached Osmania University, where students, much to their unwillingness, are being forced to study this balderdash in the syllabus of a legitimate subject under the pretext of 'Essence of Indian Traditional Knowledge.'

Until now, unscientific claims regarding 'gau mutr' (cow urine)' and other such things was mostly relegated to Whatsapp forwards, which are a haven for right wing (read Hind...