SPORTS IN INDIA INVOLVING ANIMALS



             SPORTS IN INDIA INVOLVING ANIMALS
                                                                                                     -AACHAL BURANDE

                   Sports in India involving animals are leads the heritage and tradition of India. Now a days usage of animals becomes the huge part of sports & entertainment industry. Cultural traditions such as fox hunting and bull fighting, as well as horse and dog racing in the sporting world, not to mention animals performing tricks at circuses, are all examples of how we take advantage of animals simply for our own entertainment.
                          
  There are various games involing animals in India leading to various regions. Such as Jallikattu. It is a traditional spectacle from Tamil nadu in which a Bos indicus bull is released into a crowd of people, and multiple human participants attempt to grab the large hump on the bull's back with both arms and hang on to it while the bull attempts to escape.Same like Jalikattu, the Kambala is the traditional game from Karnataka. It involves an annual Buffalo Race.Similar to it, in Maharashtra Bullock cart race is the famous cultural game.  Cockfights are popular in Andhra Pradesh during the festival of Sankranti.Horse and camel race during the Pushkar fair period attract the most crowd, and the winner gets a cash prize from the government of Rajasthan.On Delhi’s outskirts, at select farmhouses in Gurgaon, and in select venues in Noida,people regularly gather to watch “dog fights”.Every Makar Sankranti, which coincides with Assam’s harvest festival Bhogali Bihu, bulbul fights are organised in the Hayagriva-Madhava Temple in Hajo, 30 km from Guwahati.Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, involving two or more jockeys riding horses over a set distance for competition. It is one of the most ancient of all sports and is purpose is to identify which of the horses is the fastest.
                       The Indian Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, requires people who are responsible for animals, to take all reasonable measures to ensure their well-being and to prevent unnecessary pain or suffering. But the double standard of animal activists, judiciary and governments to ignore and legalise one sport, but to allow another to prevail, is what irks most people thereby making this, an ongoing debate.
                               

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