Running of the bulls (or encierroin Spanish)

Running of the bulls (or encierroin Spanish) is another freaky adventure sports. Basically some bulls are let loose along the town’s streets and participants have to run in front of them. Pamplona in Spain (mentioned in Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” and “Death in the Afternoon”) is the most famous among all the encierros. Bollywood film ‘Zindagi Na Milengi Dobara’ had featured shots of Pamplona that garnered praises as well as criticisms. ‘Bull running’ has been for long engulfed in heated debates between animal right activists – most notably by Peta who organised a mock demonstration ‘running of the nudes’ every year to oppose the game – and sports lovers. This apart around 300 people are injured and several killed in ‘bull running’ annually.