Ritual hunting-Ugadi

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Ritual hunting-Ugadi

Post by Pran » Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:00 pm

Ritual hunting during Ugadi though banned is still practised in many parts of Karnataka.Local news channels aired videos of villagers with their trophies yesterday.

Here are two articles(last year's) from The Hindu and Deccan Herald

http://www.hindu.com/2006/03/28/stories ... 040300.htm

http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanheral ... 006328.asp

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