• Indian farmers compete with their bulls as they participate in a bull race at a paddy field during a monsoon festival in Herobhanga village, some 85 kms south of Kolkata. Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP
    Indian farmers compete with their bulls as they participate in a bull race at a paddy field during a monsoon festival in Herobhanga village, some 85 kms south of Kolkata. Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP
  • Indian farmers fall on the ground after failing to control the bulls. Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP
    Indian farmers fall on the ground after failing to control the bulls. Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP
  • Indian farmers compete with their bulls. Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP
    Indian farmers compete with their bulls. Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP
  • Indian farmers prepare the bulls. Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP
    Indian farmers prepare the bulls. Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP
  • Indian farmers compete with their bulls. Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP
    Indian farmers compete with their bulls. Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP
  • Indian farmers prepare the bulls. Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP
    Indian farmers prepare the bulls. Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP
  • Indian farmers try to control the bulls at the starting line. Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP
    Indian farmers try to control the bulls at the starting line. Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP

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Monsoon festival brings bull racing to India's paddy fields - in pictures

Farmers participate in the race before ploughing their fields in the belief it will bring good rain and a better harvest.

The National

July 01, 2018

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