Re: [silk] On popular protests, jallikattu and twitter revolutions

2017-01-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
The government had the right idea at the end of the day, bringing a high court judge over to explain the ordinance which had already been brought and how it actually was as close to the "permanent solution" the crowd was asking for as was feasible. They should have brought him in much earlier

[silk] On popular protests, jallikattu and twitter revolutions

2017-01-23 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
First some background to what happened: Jallikattu is a popular rural sport in Tamil Nadu that involves young men chasing fearsome bulls with sharpened horns through narrow allies and mounting them bare handed. It's an exciting, yet brutal (on the player more than the animal usually) sport for the