The new Indian fetish: posting videos of one’s own barbarity on Facebook and WhatsApp
(Editor’s note: Some of the videos posted here are disturbing. We recommend readers’ discretion in viewing them.) Moments before he lifted the whimpering mongrel and flung it from the terrace of a three-storeyed building, Gowtham Sudarshan smiled for the camera. As the dog hit the ground, yelping, he was heard laughing. Twenty-three-year-old Sudarshan, a medical student in the southern Indian city of Chennai, was later arrested, along with Ashish Paul who video-recorded the atrocity on July 4. In case you were wondering, the dog survived , still trustingly wagging its tail at the rescuers. Meanwhile, another widely-watched video shows a man—as yet unrecognised—approaching a monkey with some eatables. As it gulps down handsful of the snack, the man lands a savage slap on the unsuspecting simian. The force throws the animal a few feet away before it flees in terror—squeals of laughter in the background. Sordid disaster selfies and horrific mishap video...
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