If there are 500 tigers left in India, I'd be surprised. They are even skinning the tigers in Indian zoos. - Maneka Gandhi

Three years ago, I came to you as a bride. Today, I come as a widow who, with a small child, was thrown out of her mother-in-law's house.

Whether they serve lamb or vegetable burgers is irrelevant. McDonald's is the largest killer of cows in the world.

While I respect culture, this bull-killing ritual causes extreme suffering to an innocent creature and has no place in the modern world. Tradition is not an excuse for cruelty, and many societies have ended or are working to end ‘traditional’ practices—such as slavery, cannibalism, infanticide, female circumcision, foot-binding, bullfighting, and fox hunting—that cause animals or humans to suffer.