BVS BHASKAR AMALAPURAM/BHEEMAVARAM: Come Sankranti and coastal Andhra is all set to raise a toast to roosters. On the face of it, there may be nothing eye-pleasing about a gory sport in which cocks get wounded and killed. It, however, seems to be a source of fun for onlookers, a prospective business for vendors, and high-stake gambling for punters. More than 200 battlegrounds, small and big, for hosting cockfights, rows of roosters in pens seemingly waiting for their turn for the do-or-die battle, gambling dens, liquor outlets, biryani stalls, etc. make it the most happening place in East and West Godavari districts. Courts may have banned it and animal activists may cry murder. But the...
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