SumanSpeaks Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence Weekend Reading · Comparative Theology Did Ancient Hindus Eat Beef? The Question Is Harder Than Yes or No A viral claim by a Hindu saint — that beef was eaten in the Vedic age and banned later — collapses two separate questions into one. Historians can't even agree on the first. Nobody serious has settled the second. Every few months, a sadhu or scholar says something like this on a public stage: ancient Hindus ate beef, and the ban came later. The clip goes viral. Outrage follows on both sides. And almost nobody asks the actual question underneath it — which is not "is this true," but "what would it even mean if it were?" That second question is the one worth sitting with this weekend. Every major tradition draws a line between what was once practised and what is practised now. The line itself is not sca...