Gorehabba

Gorehabba or Gore Habba is a festival or ritual in India, of splashing cow dung on each other. This festival is celebrated a day after Diwali's Balipadyami in the small village of Gummatapura in the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border, India.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ "Gorehabba". Society for the Confluence of Festivals in India (SCFI). Retrieved 2013-04-12.
↑ Phadnis, Shekher (October 16, 2011). "A Strange Diwali Celebration". The Navhind Times. Retrieved 2013-04-12.

External links

Gorehabba festival celebrant piles cow dung, BBC Motion gallery
Dung-slingers aim at peace, Deccan Herald

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