Animal can suffer but not the Circus please!!!!!!!

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Making an elephant sit on a small tool for hours on end; making a monkey or a

bear ride a bicycle….is it art??? Do these circus people realize how punishing

it is for an elephant to stand on all its fours on a small stool??? Or how

laborious it is for a bear to balance itself on a bicycle? Surely I wouldn't

call it an art. Punishing or straining an animal for arts sake is not art at

all! In simple words its cruelty of the first order…..in the name of art!!!

There can be other ways of reviving the circus…why make an animal subject to all

this? As Rudyard Kipling points out (Intentions -1891), " The devil whoops as he

whooped of old: `It's clever, but is it Art?' "

Moreover what kind of norms and rules regarding the `use' of animals, should be

laid down by the govt???? Does Mr.Hariharan want to say that circuses can only

flourish when the animals are there riding a bicycle or a monkey is seen flying

on a trapeze or the poor elephant with its big,bulky form is seen trying to

balance itself on a stool!!! Wow!! How cute the jumbo would look, no????

Amazing and very enlightening Mr.Hariharan, must I say!!!!! Let the animal die

or suffer…but the `Circus' should not…after all its an ART!!!!!!!!

 

Warm regards

Radhika Singh

 

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Pictures that mirror the circus art form in all its glory

 

Express News Service

Posted: Friday , Jun 12, 2009 at 0309 hrs IST

 

Pune:

" The circus is dying in India. It is a neglected art form here, whereas

countries such as Russia are making efforts to promote and preserve it. A circus

has a life of its own and Arul Horizon's pictures mirror the art form in all its

glory, " said Chennai-based filmmaker K Hariharan here on Thursday.

Hariharan, who is also director, L V Prasad Film & TV Academy, Chennai, was

speaking after inaugurating Off The Rings - The Circus Scenes Never Seen , a

photo exhibition at Balgandharva Kala Dalan on JM Road. The exhibition is a

compilation of photographs taken by Arul Horizon, principal photographer with

The Indian Express, over a period of four years at various circus venues in Pune

and Surat.

Pointing out that circus in India is fading into oblivion owing to the rules

related to animal rights, he said the need of the hour is to make regulations

that will not kill the art form. This, especially at a time when circus was

treated with much reverence in many European countries, Hariharan said. There

were certain rulings in India recently, after which some animals could not be

used for circus performances. " This has adversely affected circus. The

government should lay down certain norms and rules over the use of animals. This

will help the art form flourish, " he said.