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Buddhist funeral for 800 dead storks in Assam
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Monday, September 22, 2008 |
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Hundreds of Buddhist villagers in Assam performed a unique funeral ritual for more than 800 endangered storks that perished last week after a 200-year-old banyan tree in which the birds were nesting fell, reports Times of India/IANS |
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Elephant economics rule in Kerala fests
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Sunday, February 24, 2008 |
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The January to April festival season has started in Kerala's temples and local organizing committees are shopping for elephants. If more than one temple has its celebration on the same day, and there is a bidding war for an elephant, prices can go up from Rs 10,000 to Rs35,000 a day. The most popular elephants fetch their owners a net profit of Rs1-1.5 lakh in the four months. The smaller ones bring in about Rs50,000. The elephant owners like to downplay the economics of the process because Indian laws do not allow animals to be used for "commercial purposes", writes Ajayan in Mint |
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