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    Jallikattu Ban: Elites vs Local Tradition

    No one argued otherwise. That argument is similar to taking up arms and going to the border. I can express opinions without the compulsion to carry them out. Besides, I am likely to be harmed physically for going against certain religions. I am content being an armchair general as they say...
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    Jallikattu Ban: Elites vs Local Tradition

    Good read on the larger game behind the circus: The great game in Jallikattu @Krusty thanks, but the brevity was mostly as I am typing this on my cell. I am not usually concise.
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    Jallikattu Ban: Elites vs Local Tradition

    Justice is relative. People are free to protest against orders they don't agree with, else let SC outlaw protests against its orders. People are sick of the bias and hypocrisy. As for the pictures you put up, they are mild compared to what happens to animals during rituals of some other...
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    Jallikattu Ban: Elites vs Local Tradition

    Are PETA and other 'activists' against Spanish bullfighting?
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    Jallikattu Ban: Elites vs Local Tradition

    Economic reason for the ban depicted succinctly.
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    Jallikattu Ban: Elites vs Local Tradition

    I am all for people standing up, though I wonder how much of this is grass-root and not politically backed. For SC to take it up again, the government would need to bring an ordinance so that it gets challenged. I don't know if the government is interested in irking the SC on this. On PETA...
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    Jallikattu Ban: Elites vs Local Tradition

    I'd cheer but protests mean nothing to courts which have ruled on this. Only way forward is try to get the courts to reconsider. Good luck with that.
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    Jallikattu Ban: Elites vs Local Tradition

    Shhh.. the mighty courts are answerable to anyone. Who are you to criticize them, you lowly pleb? You are merely entitled to elect your politicians who makes laws, you have no say in the body which adjudication of those laws.
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    Jallikattu Ban: Elites vs Local Tradition

    They could, my point was they wouldn't want to take on the SC in such a manner. They have too many other issues in front of the courts. People need to come to terms with the fact that this is not a government for Hinuds. People don't seem to want to take Modi at his word when he almost always...
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    Jallikattu Ban: Elites vs Local Tradition

    Unfortunately that's how it is. There is virtually no external say is the selection or removal of judges. All the GoI can do is stall appointments. On the ordinance, its highly unlikely as that would amount to contempt of court. The GoI is not going to wage an unnecessary war with SC on this...
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    Jallikattu Ban: Elites vs Local Tradition

    How are we a democracy when one, the branch that can overrule virtually anything proclaims it's answerable to no one?
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    Jallikattu Ban: Elites vs Local Tradition

    Unlikely, given that this government does not seem inclined to take on the SC for religious and cultural rights of the majority religion. All that can happen now is if people ignore the order and carry on. The state governments under whom the police operate can take a call how to handle or...
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