Dahi Handi celebrated with pomp in Mah

 

 

DAHI Handi, which is part of Krishna Janmashtami festival, is being celebrated on a grand scale across Maharashtra, especially in Mumbai and its neighbouring areas, on Friday after the COVID-19 pandemic-induced gap of two years.

As part of the festival, youngsters (called ‘Govindas’), dressed in colourful attire, make human pyramids to reach an earthen pot containing buttermilk suspended mid-air, and break it. It symbolises victory through unity.

OVER 100 ‘Dahi Handi’ participants injured in Mumbai: At least 110 ‘Govindas’ or Dahi Handi participants were injured while building human pyramids during the Krishna Janmashtami celebrations in Mumbai on Friday, civic officials said. The Maharashtra Government has issued an order instructing Government hospitals to treat injured members of the Govinda troupes free of cost.

The incidents of participants falling from heights and getting injured are common. Dahi Handi events and Govinda troupes receive considerable political patronage in cities like Mumbai and Thane.