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Mound:Fishing Festival Of Garhwal (India) Celebrated
by azzayindia | June 29, 2008 at 11:38 pm | 821 views | 19 comments | 46 recommendations
Mussoorie, 29 June:
Young and old men gathered in the Aglar River valley, near Yamuna Bridge in Tehri district of Garhwal, to celebrate the annual fishing festival “Mound”, a local term meaning the state of drunkenness or addiction.
It is a festival or tradition that dates back to the pre-independence feudal era, initiated by the then Maharajah of Tehri, who designated one day for fishing on the popular demand of the local villagers, as fishing was banned by the Maharajah in Yamuna Valley.
The Maharajah then fixed one day which usually falls around 29th June of every year as “Mound.”
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June 29, 2008 at 11:38 pm by azzayindia, 821 views, 19 comments
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Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (19)
at 23:58 on June 29th, 2008
azzayindia, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 01:50 on June 30th, 2008
azzayindia, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Great pics.... Why does the man have a fish hanging out of his mouth?
at 05:54 on June 30th, 2008
Perhaps the local hooch got better of him.
at 03:49 on June 30th, 2008
azzayindia, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 04:16 on June 30th, 2008
azzayindia, thanks for a great story!
at 05:15 on June 30th, 2008
azzayindia, I like this story. It's good stuff. You know AZZY, in Canada, give a man a fish, and you feed him for the day, teach a man to fish, and he'll take every opportunity not to go to work, because let's face, a bad day of fishing is better than a Great day at work. As for me I would rather be fishing. No one has ever heard of the term "Working Buddies", but everyone has heard the term "Fishing Buddies", nothing like a day with your friends fishing!
at 07:49 on June 30th, 2008
Very true Barry, my one day covering the event was indeed invigorating.What i Liked about the festival was that people who had not met for years came close that day.
During the Maharajah of Tehris time the festival was banned due to fights among the two villages.
But the charm of yhe festival was so much that all the villagers united and forced the king to restart it.
I think that is what fishing can do to you.
at 05:44 on June 30th, 2008
azzayindia, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 06:00 on June 30th, 2008
Thank you members for your comments and gs.
at 06:42 on June 30th, 2008
I like this story
at 07:10 on June 30th, 2008
thank you shell
at 10:51 on June 30th, 2008
azzayindia, I like this story. It's good stuff. Great photos!
at 08:02 on July 1st, 2008
i love the photos...the lush background against which this child is proudly holding up his fish for you; the man with the fish (?) in the foreground and another one with a nike (!!) T-shirt...most interesting!
at 08:14 on July 1st, 2008
thanks Rumana,
Lovely to hear from you,yes Uttarakhand is beautiful and my place Mussoorie people say resembles Murree,would love to see the photographs of that place too.
cheers
at 08:37 on July 1st, 2008
well, nathiagali and a few other lesser-known places in the himalayas are better than murree, which is now so commercialised and overcrowded that the charm of that 'once upon a time' bygone era is only a memory!
at 09:02 on July 1st, 2008
same problem is with mussoorie.
at 04:59 on July 7th, 2008
azzayindia, I like this story. It's good stuff. Your story is really intersting informing more about the hidden culture of uttarakhand.
Grat job
at 07:49 on July 7th, 2008
shree thank you for your comments
at 04:55 on July 21st, 2008
azzayindia, I like this story. It's good stuff. Very interesting! :)