�They do eat rats in TN: Govt tells SC
Tuesday, 19 August , 2003, 10:28
The Tamil Nadu Government told the Supreme Court that it was common for labourers in Tiruvarur district to eat 'robust rats' even as it denied that they have been forced to adopt such eating habits due to starvation.�
Did you know that our Goan �KUNBIS� eat robust rats (Kolundir)? I know this for a fact because I personally witnessed them eating one. In my article of January 3, I wrote about a group of Kunbis from Assagao who took up a contract at my place to dig water well in the early fifties. Since my house is located at the foot of the hill and as we stored paddy in the house, we were plagued with small and big rats. Our cats did a good job catching small rats indoors but they couldn�t handle big rats in the open outdoors more so because they were bigger in size than our cats. So, we set up wooden case traps at night outside the house. We had caught two big rats in the past which I had killed with my gun and buried. We again managed to catch another big rat while Kunbis worked at our place; the rat was so big that it could not turn inside the trap. I had killed the rat with my gun just as Kunbi workers arrived to work at my place. As soon as they saw the rat, they asked: �What are you going to do with it?� I said: �I am going to bury it� at which they said: �Please don�t; we want it�. I asked �Why�? They said: �Of course, to eat�! So, I asked them: �Do you eat rats�? They said: �Yes, but not small rats � only big ones�. They then boiled water, cleaned it just as people clean a pig, asked my mother for some spices and feasted on it in the afternoon! Voila!!!
Moi-mogan, Domnic Fernandes Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA
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