Students gathered in their thousands at the Marina Beach against Jallikattu ban

Asked why was it that jallikattu elicited such a response, when issues like farmer suicides evoked very little emotion among the students, Solomon Raj, a stu dent of Meenakshi College of Engineering, said that “farmer suicides was a never ending issue. It will continue to happen for another generation but jallikattu deserves our attention. If we lose it now, then what is the point of calling ourselves Tamils?” he said.

Sai Saranya and her friends, who were making charts with slogans on them, said the gathering would show the world how it would look when Tamils rose as one.