Dear Editor,
The Gadhimai festival is a month-long Hindu festival held in Bara District near Kathmandu in Nepal. The event involves the world’s largest sacrificial slaughter of about 2,50,000 animals, including buffaloes, pigs, chicken and pigeons. The devotees do it to please Gadhimai, the Goddess of Power. The majority of the about five million people participating in the festival is from India. This is an unparalleled religious madness in Nepal in which mass animal sacrifice is done. It is considered to be the goriest mass killing of animals. This cruelty against animals in the name of culture or religion must be stopped.
Ramni Singh
Chenani
