From the archive record
Jumping up and down with super motivation and enthusiasm is team white of pear and apple throwing villagers at the Bagwal festival in Devidhura, Champawat. The battle lines are drawn and the brown shields are lined up for the fruit assault! A female medical team of nurses and doctors on standby at the Devidhura Bagwal festival in Champawat, when two sets of villagers hit each other with apples and pears, and ultimately with stones and rocks, as seen aerially, from the air, in this aerial view. 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 shifting monsoon mists one comes across an otherwise enchanting Himalayan village with a strange story to tell each seas