Karkadakam begins in Kerala today. Adi in Tamil Nadu. It is also Ramayana masam in Kerala. Thats what Mathrubhoomi says. Me does not know; nor interested. Perhaps the beginnings of the festival season and bad times for temple elephants in Kerala. In Mint, Aakar Patel, in Reply to All asks: What do we mean when we say we love India? Have a query. Do we love India at all? Is there an India? Pepper spray Kashmiris, violate North East, and do what we want with adivasis and tribals of Chhatisgarh, Jharkhand and other areas; somehow, somewhere and somewhat our unkindness gets chronicled... Our dislike for animals has not even a somehow telling. Wildlife is not Nice. Wildlife is a filler news item .. Two tigers from Pench Tiger Reserve locked up in the enclosures of Borivili National Park because they are tigers, Mumbaikars can see, shout and scream at. In Kerala of excellent social indicators, a Canadian lady Sangita Iyer has chronicled our beastliness to elephants. Saw bits of her documentary Gods in Shackles on youtube after reading a piece in The Indian Express: Faith in Fetters. Kerala temples are Holocaust for Indian elephants; anything, something, everything is done to harm them after chaining them; brought illegally from Assam and further. In a Malayalam TV ad, popular actor Prithviraj exclaims There is only one Pooram. It is Trichur Pooram. Tell that to some 100 and more sick elephants employed at the Pooram and they will go into a shivered collapse. Vandana Kalra in The Indian Express writes: 'There is also a reference to Guruvayur Arjunan who was beaten to death earlier this year because of Katti Adikkai -- continuously beating elephants with weapons such as bull hook and long poles that have pointed metal spikes to shatter their spirit and reduce their energy during the musth period, when the elephants experience a surge of hormones and thereby become aggressive. ' It is the cruellest of rituals. Seven to eight men get drunk and beat the living daylights out of the elephant,' says Iyer. Hope one day Iyer youtubes her documentary. And at every temple the priests perform Ganapati homam, a smoky invocation to Lord Ganesh. Is this fair? Sir Aakar Patel, Gandhiland is no country for elephants .... not for trees and animals... can it be for humans....
Friday, July 15, 2016
Guruvayur Arjunan
Karkadakam begins in Kerala today. Adi in Tamil Nadu. It is also Ramayana masam in Kerala. Thats what Mathrubhoomi says. Me does not know; nor interested. Perhaps the beginnings of the festival season and bad times for temple elephants in Kerala. In Mint, Aakar Patel, in Reply to All asks: What do we mean when we say we love India? Have a query. Do we love India at all? Is there an India? Pepper spray Kashmiris, violate North East, and do what we want with adivasis and tribals of Chhatisgarh, Jharkhand and other areas; somehow, somewhere and somewhat our unkindness gets chronicled... Our dislike for animals has not even a somehow telling. Wildlife is not Nice. Wildlife is a filler news item .. Two tigers from Pench Tiger Reserve locked up in the enclosures of Borivili National Park because they are tigers, Mumbaikars can see, shout and scream at. In Kerala of excellent social indicators, a Canadian lady Sangita Iyer has chronicled our beastliness to elephants. Saw bits of her documentary Gods in Shackles on youtube after reading a piece in The Indian Express: Faith in Fetters. Kerala temples are Holocaust for Indian elephants; anything, something, everything is done to harm them after chaining them; brought illegally from Assam and further. In a Malayalam TV ad, popular actor Prithviraj exclaims There is only one Pooram. It is Trichur Pooram. Tell that to some 100 and more sick elephants employed at the Pooram and they will go into a shivered collapse. Vandana Kalra in The Indian Express writes: 'There is also a reference to Guruvayur Arjunan who was beaten to death earlier this year because of Katti Adikkai -- continuously beating elephants with weapons such as bull hook and long poles that have pointed metal spikes to shatter their spirit and reduce their energy during the musth period, when the elephants experience a surge of hormones and thereby become aggressive. ' It is the cruellest of rituals. Seven to eight men get drunk and beat the living daylights out of the elephant,' says Iyer. Hope one day Iyer youtubes her documentary. And at every temple the priests perform Ganapati homam, a smoky invocation to Lord Ganesh. Is this fair? Sir Aakar Patel, Gandhiland is no country for elephants .... not for trees and animals... can it be for humans....
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