Viral Video: IIT Madras Director Kamakoti praises cow urine’s ‘medicinal value’, calls for switching to…, DMK leader says…

Chennai: A video clip of the IIT Madras Director V Kamakoti goes viral on social media where he is viewed purportedly praising the medicinal cost’ of ‘Gomutra’ while talking on keeping indigenous breeds of cows and the significance of switching to natural farming. While addressing an match at a Hump Samrakshana Sala on the day of Maatu Pongal (January 15, 2025) in Chennai, he narrated an tale from the lifetime of a sanyasi and acknowledged the ascetic, when he had high fever, consumed gomutra and he became once cured.

The director acknowledged, which capacity truth, gomiyam (cow urine/gomutra) has, “anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, and digestive properties,” and it is purposeful as a remedy for prerequisites equivalent to the Moody Bowel Syndrome and batted for consideration of cow urine’s “medicinal cost.”

He made this commentary after underlining the importance of natural farming and the significant position performed by indigenous breeds of cattle in agriculture and the total economy.

Rationalist outfit Dravidar Kazhagam slammed the Gomutra commentary announcing it went in opposition to the truth and became once “impolite”.

DMK chief TKS Elangovan hit out at Kamakoti for his commentary and alleged that the scheme of the central govt is to “break” education in the country.

Thanthai Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam chief K Ramakrishnan acknowledged Kamakoti should give proof for his claim or he should soft an apology. “If he does now not apologise, we are going to stage inform in opposition to him.”

Congress chief Karti P Chidambaram slammed the commentary, and acknowledged: “Peddling pseudoscience by @iitmadras Director is most unbecoming @IMAIndiaOrg.”

The IIT director, emphasising on ‘Hump samrakshana,’ keeping cows, acknowledged it has financial, nutritional and environmental advantages. “We are in a position to neglect Bhoomi Mata (mom earth) if we squawk fertilisers. The speedier we switch to natural, natural manner of farming, entirely that's good for us,” Kamakoti acknowledged.

He favoured biogas squawk and urged in opposition to changing farm lands for any other squawk, be it putting in place properties or taking on industrial reason ventures relish building marriage halls or cinemas.

On Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859), who sowed the seeds for British scheme of education in India, the IIT-M top professor alleged the Britisher became once for eliminating indigenous cows, the most foremost building block of economy, to grab India to a put of slavery.

Furthermore, Kamakoti talked about concerning the putting in place of slaughterhouses all the scheme via the times of the British Raj, relish the actual person that had a ability to butcher about 30,000 cows a day.

Indigenous cows and bulls (Naatu Maadu) blueprint the core –the most foremost building block– of natural farming and which capacity truth, most that you just may deem of efforts must be taken to guard the indigenous cattle breeds. He emphasised the position of natural farming to the economy.

“If farmers say that they'll not develop grains, from where a particular person may safe his food?, he requested and underlined that ryots and farming must be supported.

In this regard, he cited the Regenerative Agriculture Stack Structure programme of the IIT-Madras.

He acknowledged the top price institute would grab in ‘Goshala automation,’ mission, which additionally contains making the operation cost efficient and producing biogas and Panchagavyam (natural product).

DK chief Kali Poongundran cited a explore and acknowledged it showed that the cow urine had inferior bacterias and which capacity truth, now not sincere for converse human consumption. “It's miles a regressive belief,” he informed PTI Movies and warned folk to now not now not belive such an belief and safe deceived.

Dr GR Ravindranath of the Doctors Association for Social Equality acknowledged gomutra consumption may situation off bacterial infections, a scientific truth and slammed the BJP regime on the Centre for promoting pseudo science and superstition.

BJP Tamil Nadu president K Annamalai slammed efforts to ‘politicise’ the professor’s Gomutra scrutinize and praised Kamakoti for his accomplishments. The IIT top professor’s commentary became once his ‘private stand,’ and he neither lectured about it in a be taught room nor requested others to drink it.

Sources shut to Kamakoti informed PTI that he spoke on the goshala match, he himself being an ‘natural farmer,’ and there became once a greater context to his remarks.

The context contains aspects relish the indigenous cow breeds facing threat and scientific reports equivalent to the, “Peptide profiling in cow urine unearths molecular signature of physiology-pushed pathways and in-silico predicted bioactive properties” in journal ‘Nature.’

Prof Kamakoti assumed cost as director of IIT-M on January 17, 2022. Awards and recognition consist of the DRDO Academy Excellence Award (2013) for his excellent contributions in the realm of scientific research and technology style.

Maatu Pongal (2nd day of Tamil month Thai) is a pageant devoted to cows and bulls when folk preserve poojas and events thanking the cattle and celebrating their contribution to agriculture and allied actions.

(With PTI Inputs)