Children unleashed their spinning tops on to the dry bed of the stream on which the village's jallikattu is played. This then, is the story of how a movement for jallikattu arrived at one of the villages that the sport calls home. “We reached Alanganallur to find blockades into the village and concluded there would be no jallikattu today. The official protest of the village at the bus stand were fast losing members. By the time everyone realised that those who had been protesting at the bus stand had joined the vaadivaasal protest, the microphone was in the hands of A.V.

Source: The Hindu January 22, 2017 20:48 UTC