The 2017Jallikattu protests, also known as Thai Puratchi refers to numerous leaderless apolitical youth groups protesting in January 2017 in large groups in several locations across the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, with some sporadic smaller protests taking place across India as well as overseas.The first large protests occurred on 8 January 2017, when several groups, organised largely via social media, conducted a protest at the Marina beach in Chennai to revoke the ban on jallikattu which was imposed in 2014. These groups also demanded that PETA be banned from India.The protests soon gained momentum and spread all over Tamil Nadu. After several days of protests, jallikattu was finally legalized locally on 23 January when the Government of Tamil Nadu passed a bill to amend the PCA Act. As the legalization is not Indian federal law, but rather state law, there is concern from Indian legal experts that jallikattu could be banned once again by the Supreme Court.
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Direction: Balan Muthukumaaran | Music: Reyan | Camera: Thevendran, Nijai Gowthaman, Sudharsha Jayaraj, Ramalingam | Edit: Vidhu Jeeva
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