2/10/2012

Getting the Mumbaikar's goat

Astoundingly cute and very gentle, goats of all colours, shapes and sizes are seen in local streets. Most are kept to be slaughtered during the annual Bakri Eid festival.
Commemorating Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son, before God intervened to provide him with a ram to kill instead, this festival creates a massive annual demand for goats.
They are controversially trucked in from all over the country. This was protested by both animal activists and religious groups last November, and many of the goats were confiscated en-route, to the ire of local Muslims.

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