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Natrajan Thamizhmani

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Brave or Brutal?

What is bravery? Is chasing a pugnacious bull as a sport (Jallikattu) and while doing so getting tossed over by the bull's horns an act of bravery? Even if it is considered so, it seems a rather uncivilized and brutish way to display bravery. How is hanging from a running bull's hump any safer than hanging from a crowded bus? While the government recommends against the latter, shouldn't the former be banned? I can at least think of better excuses for hanging from a bus. What is really annoying is the fact that every year this brutal sport has witnessed loss of life but nothing really has even been initiated to put an end to this? It is such an integral part of our so called barbaric 'culture' now, so much so that it seems so hard to live without seeing somebody get killed every year in the sport. Now what do you want to call this? Bravery or brutality? Brutal in my words and brave in expressing them here I blog.

 
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