When someone disobeys the order or making an infringement of the stated pisition. The aggrieved person will be shouting ----"erumai" -----literal meaning is "
buffalo" at the errant subbordinate. One has to learn the art of imperviousness from this animal. No matter, whether you are in chennai or higher reaches of himalayas, the traits of all buffaloes remain the same. A herd of buffalo can bring an entire city to a standstill.
Even a fast moving train stops after hitting a buffalo. Because the horns of the buffalo is capable of derailing the train. ( such is the power of buffaloes, incidentally, this country has the largest population of buffaloes, predominantly, "two-legged"). But sadly, these "two legged " buffaloes are causing problems to the " two legged" human beings not just humans suffer even typical buffaloes too suffer.
