Bandi Festival: An amazing ritual

Vasantha Maasa ( falls in March-April) , the first month of Hindu year brings thousands of annual rural festivals . An ancient style rituals of worshipping earth, sun, nature , water can be seen even today in the villages of India. Every festival , ritual or observance changes its dimensions with place. Peoples, fairs, market ,shops, street shows and some unique rituals are the features of these festival. Couple of visit and a little observation would reveal that every festival is deeply associated with elements of nature which imitate human practices of stone age era. These practices range from being fun, soft to brutal, inhuman to an extent normal people would fear to imagine. Bandi festivals are one of such thousands of observances found in Karnataka .

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