This refers to the report that one person was killed and 68 persons were injured at Palamedu near Madurai in the jallikattu event held on Sunday. The incident underlines the urgent need to ban the barbaric sport.
The cruelty inflicted on the animals forced to take part in jallikattu — and the terrorising of the bulls which are forced to escape from a bunch of tormentors — is something that should not be encouraged. The Tamil Nadu government continues to allow the sport under the watchful eyes of the District Collector and a large posse of policemen, putting up special double barricades and keeping ambulances and doctors in attendance. Yet we find people getting injured. Is this the way to utilise our scarce resources?
S. Chinny Krishna,Chennai
Instigate an animal to go wild and then try to control it — is this valour? It is depravity of the mind. What does a man get by endangering both himself and the animal? It is time we banned the dangerous sport. Inflicting injuries, and going wild and violent can never be part of a sport.
R. Ramanathan,Coimbatore
