Punjab

sport · village

Kila Raipur Sports Festival, popularly known as the Rural Olympics, is held annually in Kila Raipur (near Ludhiana), in Punjab, India. Competition is held for major Punjabi rural sports, include cart-race, rope pulling.

sport · livestock

Camel dances to the beat of drum at Kila Raipur Rural Olympics. Kila Raipur Sports Festival, popularly known as the Rural Olympics, is held annually in Kila Raipur (near Ludhiana), in Punjab, India.

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Gatka is a weapon-based martial art associated with the Punjab region. Though typically identified with Panjabi Sikhs, it has also traditionally been practiced by other ethno-cultural groups in India and Pakistan.

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Nihang warriors perform spear fight at International Gatka Festival during Hola Mohalla at Takht Sri Keshgarh Sahib in Punjab, India. Gatka is the name of an Indian martial art associated with the Sikhs of the Punjab region.

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Bhangra dancers getting ready o perform at Kila Raipur Olympics. Kila Raipur Sports Festival, popularly known as the Rural Olympics, is held annually in Kila Raipur (near Ludhiana), in Punjab, India.

sport · wildlife

Visitors take elephant safari at Kila Raipur in Punjab. Elephants are decorated with colours. Kila Raipur Sports Festival, popularly known as the Rural Olympics, is held annually in Kila Raipur (near Ludhiana), in Punjab, India.

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A group of women is performing Giddha to the beat of Dholak. Giddha is popularly called Lok Naach for people in Punjab specifically for women.

sport · village

Rural Olympics in Punjab - Kila Raipur - they embody the best of the Punjabi spirit which seems to have got lost in our bigger cities! In what seems to be a loud and colourful crowd of people to the untrained eye, is a well thought out even…

livestock · farmland

Man feeding the dairy cattle at Adayana Dairy farm in Punjab. Adayana cattle farm in Punjab - India. Dairy activities have traditionally been integral to India's rural economy.

livestock · farmland

Dairy cows at Adayana farm, Punjab. Dairy activities have traditionally been integral to India's rural economy. The country is the world's largest producer of dairy products and also their largest consumer.

sport · festival

This man lifts a heavy gunny-sack with his teeth and then adds the weight of a child to top it off! Kila Raipur Festival or Rural Olympics is a very popular annual sports meet.

sport · village

Kila Raipur Sports Festival, popularly known as the Rural Olympics, is held annually in Kila Raipur (near Ludhiana), in Punjab, India.

sport · village

Hockey players in full action during the hockey competition at the Sports festival, Kila Raipur - Ludhiana.

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Horse race in full action at Kila Raipur sports Festival in Punjab. Competition is held for major Punjabi rural sports, include cart-race, rope pulling and many more, rather strange expressions of strength like holding bicyle with ones teet…

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Horse race in full action at Kila Raipur sports Festival in Punjab. Competition is held for major Punjabi rural sports, include cart-race, rope pulling and many more, rather strange expressions of strength like holding bicyle with ones teet…

sport · village

Kila Raipur Sports Festival, popularly known as the Rural Olympics, is held annually in Kila Raipur (near Ludhiana), in Punjab, India.

sport · village

Kila Raipur Sports Festival, popularly known as the Rural Olympics, is held annually in Kila Raipur (near Ludhiana), in Punjab, India.

Travel across Punjab and Haryana food markets and its not hard to understand why. Warehouses are overflowing with stock of previous seasons' grain and fresh arrivals cannot be accommodated unless already stored mountains of stock are cleare…

Rotten wheat bags in open godowns of FCI in Punjab Poor are dying of hunger and our grains are rotting in the go-downs. Food grains worth 58,000 crores rotting in FCI godowns every year due to lack of or storage facilities.

Born Dharmendra on 8 December 1935, Fagwada, Punjab. Mother Satwana Kaur and father Kewal Krishan Singh Deol. In 1954 was married to Parkash Kaur when he was only 19 years old.

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Young Sikh boys compete in Kabaddi sport during the annual Kila Raipur or Rural olympics Festival in Punjab.

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Rural Olympics is a very popular event of this Kila Raipur Festival called the rural olympics. An interesting part of the event is that all participants are given enough time to show off their ability.

sport · village

Kila Raipur Sports Festival, popularly known as the Rural Olympics, is held annually in Kila Raipur (near Ludhiana), in Punjab, India.