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...given time there are only 500 or so white mares stabled in and around Delhi, rental prices can rise tenfold or even more during the wedding season, which runs from October to February. "Normally, hiring a mare for a day should cost 500 rupees ($12)," says Ashok Ahuja of Sohan Lal and Sons, a firm specializing in accoutrements for wedding processions, "But during the wedding season, it costs 5,100 rupees ($130)." A carriage, accompanied by a live band, lighting and decorations can cost up to 100,000 rupees ($2,500), he says, which doesn't seem to deter families...
...they mostly get work during the wedding season - for most of the year, their work is restricted to religious processions or children's parties, which pay a lot less - it is only fair to demand a good price when demand is high. Elephant owner Iqbal, who supplies horses to Sohan Lal and Sons, argues that well-paid owners treat their animals better, and animal rights NGO Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals confirms that complaints of ill-treatment of horses and elephants have become very rare. But it's not just simple economics, says Ashok Kumar of Harjai...
...bans discrimination in employment, schools and housing, and empowers a Commission for Racial Equality to investigate violations. In its first successful action, which came only last November, the CRE ordered a Birmingham restaurant to stop refusing nonwhite customers. The CRE has also acted to help individuals like Sohan Singh Saggu, a Leeds factory worker of Asian ancestry who was forced to build a 6-ft. hardboard partition around his lathe because fellow workers were continually spitting on him. After the CRE intervened, the factory promised to halt the abuse, and Saggu took down his bleak little fort...
...Jathedar Sohan Singh: to wash dishes for a week in the communal kitchen; Jathedar Udham Singh and Ishar Singh Mujhail: to surrender a week's salary as delegates to the Punjab legislative assembly; Master Tara Singh: to stand in the middle of the Amritsar Temple for seven days reading the Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy book, which has 29,480 rhymed homilies. Sample: "At the throne of God, grace is obtained by two things: open confession and reparation for wrong...
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