Jallikattu
Read Article of The Hindu Directly Jallikattu With animal rights activists at the head of the campaign against jallikattu, more attention seems to have been paid to cruelty to the bulls than the inherently dangerous nature of the bull taming event, that puts both spectators and partici pants at risk. Two onlookers have died in the space of two days in the jallikattu events in Palamedu and Avaa rangadu in Tamil Nadu as the barricades separating the spectators from the arena were inadequate. Two others were killed in the manjuvirattu (a variant of jallikattu) at Siravayal when the bulls were unleashed outside the earmarked arena, a violation of due procedure. Clearly, the safety arrangements monitored by the district ad ministration at these annual events in the Pongal sea son failed to prevent death and injury. With some of the events inducting more than 400 bulls and almost twice as many tamers, jallikattu has become a disorderly sp...