Supreme Court calls bull on bull fighting festival

Looks like you are new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Remember the The Fast and the Furious: Chennai Drift post from a year back? This post talked about Jallikattu, a celebration involving bull taming, held in Tamil Nadu for the Pongal festival. We also joked about how […]

Indian Rhino excretions for sale on eBay.com

A unique Christmas gift, Indian rhino poop, is available on ebay.com, worth $600 at time of posting. [link]

This shit is serious businessimg: via eBay.com

Each specimen of rhino dung has been properly dried and sealed in an attractive container featuring the name of the rhino species that produced it.
You can bid on Greater One-Horned (Indian) Rhino […]

Adopt an animal, get a tax break

A zoo in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa, is giving tax rebates to people who adopt animals. It costs Rs. 100 to adopt a bird and Rs. 80,000 to adopt a tiger. Novel idea. But I’m skeptic because we all know this will be misused by our break-all-rules society. [link]Note: BBC needs better fact checking/editing with their articles: […]

And the barbaric ritual of animal sacrifice lives on…….

Animal sacrifice, which has long been a blemish on the Hindu religion and the image of India in general still exists. In a Temple-of-Doom‘ish gesture, devotees of the Hindu goddess Kali, captured and sacrificed goats and lambs to “appease Kali”.
From IndiaeNews.com:
Devotees in Orissa’s Jajpur and Puri districts sacrificed hundreds of goats and lambs to […]

Bangalore’s Dog days

This is not a seasonal reference but rather a reference to the merciless killing of dogs the City of Bangalore seems to have adopted (picked up from DesiPundit). This all started when a