Indeed, Greeshma Aruna Roy, a 26-year-old who was at Marina Beach on the last day of the protests, is emphatic that the agitation went beyond jallikkattu. Like jallikkattu, there will be other rituals that will be seen as a connection or a continuation of the past,” he says. “Yes, the support of Hindu youth for their traditions is indeed a rebellion against the norms. Underlying the jallikkattu protests is south India’s feeling that the region has been neglected, that their culture has been taken over by the Delhi establishment,” says Ponnathpur, the college student in Bengaluru. And frankly, from the professional anthropological view, the language used by the Supreme Court is not the ideal,” says Visvanathan, on the jallikkattu ban.

Source: Economic Times January 28, 2017 18:19 UTC