Cockfights still rule the roost in forest villages

Popular pastime: Roosters competing during a cockfight in Le Port municipality, La Reunion island. — AFP

THE swing of a talon and a flurry of feathers leaves a rooster motionless, a cockfight bout viewed as cruel by many but which binds disparate Indian forest communities together.

India is renowned for its fanatical cricket obsession but in the central state of Chhattisgarh, cockfighting draws the crowds.

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