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India's Cattle Royale dung fight marks end of Diwali

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Joyful crowds pelt each other with fistfuls of cow manure as part of one village's local ritual to mark the end of Diwali, India's most important Hindu festival. Similar to Spain's "La Tomatina" -- the eccentric tomato-hurling celebration of the local fruit -- residents of Gumatapura instead fling snowball-sized wads of a more earthy variety.

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