This is again from the year 2007 and another fine photog from Kerala Hari Menon was also traveling with me to shoot this. Thankfully that day there was a dispute in the running and judging at about 530 pm so a lot of visitors on the finishing point embankment left and it was the opportunity to shoot what with the sun highlighting the runners in the golden light.
The embankment is littered with human beings and there is not a square inch of space to shoot. The bulls run in their racing frenzy and it is a feat of human endurance to keep up with them in that medium of slush and mud and water and bare feet. The bulls are supposed to turn left and do a 360 degrees but that would happen only about 50 percent of the times. The race track is about 100 plus metres of a field filled with water for days and at the finishing point an embankment of about 5 feet. This is the legendary bull race held in Kerala in the month of August to coincide with the Onam festival.
