Gorehabba

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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]

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. Archived from the original on January 28, 2012. 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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[diwalifestival-1] "Gorehabba". Society for the Confluence of Festivals in India (SCFI). Retrieved 2013-04-12.

[2] Phadnis, Shekher (October 16, 2011). "A Strange Diwali Celebration". The Navhind Times. Archived from the original on January 28, 2012. Retrieved 2013-04-12.

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