Gorehabba Explained

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 Bali Padyami in the small village of Gumatapura, in Karnataka, India.^{[1] [2]}

See also

• Carnival of Ivrea – an orange fight in Italy
• La Tomatina – a tomato fight in Spain
• Pidakala War – a cow dung fight following Ugadi in India
• Songkran – during which water fights are held in Thailand

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Gorehabba . Society for the Confluence of Festivals in India (SCFI) . 2013-04-12.
2. Web site: A Strange Diwali Celebration . . October 16, 2011 . 2013-04-12 . Phadnis, Shekher . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120128130221/http://www.navhindtimes.in/panorama/strange-diwali-celebration . January 28, 2012 .