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Villagers in pink dress run forward to throw stones at Bagwal festival, Devidhura Champawat Uttarakhand. When one village stones another! Team orange. With much revelry and camaraderie, the grotesque stone pelting festival gets off to a start as villagers converge at the Bagwal Festival grounds in Devidhura Champawat, for the stone pelting fight, to the chanting of religious texts and lines by a pujari priest. Villagers converge at Bagwal Festival grounds in Devidhura Champawat Uttarakhand on 23 Aug 2024 Colourfully attired people of Uttarakhand begin to gather at the Bagwal Festival in Devidhura, Champawat. Kumaoni villagers of the western Himalaya smile and wave to our camera from the air, as our drone hovers over the massive crowds waiting to see the stone slugging fest. Through the shi