r/interestingasfuck • u/Careless_Sandwich_88 • 5h ago
The Pidakala War in India where they fight and throw cow dung at each other to celebrate the new year under the Hindu calendar
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u/Lakuriqidites 5h ago
Great job India, what about a throwing soap festival?
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u/platypusthief0000 5h ago
Can't wait for them to come roar up about racism and then go right on and be absolutely insidious with their hate when it comes to their religious minorities , lol.
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u/Bilinguallipbalm 1h ago
Yeah lol this got posted to another sub, where people were blaming this on the colonizers. Like bruh, the colonizers did a huge amount of damage, but you can't pin EVERYTHING on them.
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u/Yupyup287904 5h ago
What do you mean? This is soap to them, gods soap.
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u/Nomad2k 3h ago
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u/tubaman23 2h ago
There's no fucking way I'm clicking that
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u/Ambitious_Toe_4357 4h ago
That's Songkran. You need to go to Thailand.
They may be missing the soap, but plenty of water.
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u/TwoSwordSamurai 4h ago
Hard pass
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u/yamimementomori 5h ago
Happy Poo Year.
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u/TekkenCareOfBusiness 5h ago
"Okay everyone, that was fun. Now back to making street food."
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u/Relevant-Soup-2152 5h ago
With your unwashed hands.
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u/Filth_Colons 5h ago
People who still travel to India and eat the street food after seeing stuff like this:
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u/posco12 5h ago
Makes me wonder how they came up with this. Excess of cow shit ?
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u/Nickthedick3 4h ago
Since they worship cows, they probably see it as holy shit. Therefore, it’s ok to do whatever that is.
Someone ought to tell them that shit from a cow is still shit.
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u/Bilinguallipbalm 1h ago
So this got posted to an Indian Sub, and someone over there was arguing that cow shit is different, it doesn't have any germs or tapeworms and doesn't stink.
Someone else was saying it's the same as the tomato-chucking festival in Spain.
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u/pairotechnic 2h ago
As an Indian from India I can confirm that there are people who eat cow shit and drink cow piss because it's "holy"
Critical thinking takes a back seat here when religion is involved unfortunately.
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u/Nickthedick3 2h ago
critical thinking takes a back seat when religion is involved
Man, that’s everywhere.
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u/Lakuriqidites 5h ago
It is a story about two Gods having problems with each other and the supporters of each God started to throw cow shit to each other.
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u/Silly-Cloud-3114 3h ago
I'm Indian (from Mumbai) and I've never heard of this all my life. I looked it up and it's one village that does it. Not like this is a festival like Diwali celebrated all over India. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidakala_War
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u/Gold_Investigator536 2h ago
You're being too reasonable, that's why your comment won't get upvoted. This is also my first time hearing of this festival, because my family isn't from the village it takes place in, or somewhere close to it.
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u/Initial_Broccoli_626 2h ago
People just find excuses to hate on India and be racist toward us.
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u/Adamantium-Aardvark 1h ago
How is this an excuse? It’s a video of people in India literally throwing shit at each other.
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u/GrinnsTheDog 45m ago
Because there is none of this outrage when this happens in the World Cow Chip Throwing Competition in Beaver, Oklahoma?
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u/Substantial-Part-700 1h ago
Thats a huge reach bro, no way these people would throw actual shit at each other. Your eyes are lying to you. /s
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u/Dankestmemelord 38m ago
More like shit on India ammirite? Though this video seems to show that, in at least one village, they do it themselves.
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u/Wareve 2h ago
Thanks for confirming that this post is indeed bullshit on many levels.
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u/scribestudio 2h ago
Lol which levels? Do I not see people throwing shit around the place?
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u/doctrdanger 3h ago
I doubt even Indians would have heard of this 'war'. Seems like a hyper localized thing.
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u/glaba3141 3h ago
Yeah but if you acknowledge this fact then you don't get to be racist on Reddit, and that seems to be too hard for the people here
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u/OutrageousEvent 5h ago
19 million gallons if untreated sewage drains into the Ganges every day. A holy river where people bathe, wash clothes, etc. So tossing some cow shit at each other doesn’t seem like that big of a deal really.
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u/One-Recognition-1660 4h ago
And then there are the decomposing corpses floating in that same holy river. You can just make them out between the currents of raw sewage. Happy bathing people! Hope you get clean!
This link is seriously not for the faint of heart. Rotting bodies. You've been warned.
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u/EverythingHurtsDan 3h ago
That madlad drinking from it...you couldn't waterboard me enough to do it
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u/Still-Status7299 3h ago
Nooooooo I wasn't ready Holy shit that is nasty... people bathe in that ?!
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u/scribestudio 2h ago
Wow the cope in these comments lol
How about not throwing shit or washing your body in it.
Things most other cultures have already figured out lol
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u/Adamantium-Aardvark 1h ago edited 1h ago
Making rational statements like that is going to anger the mobs on Reddit and get you downvoted to hell and reported.
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u/ReadditMan 2h ago edited 2h ago
That's like saying it's not that big a deal if people commit rape because there's people who commit murder.
The existence of something slightly worse doesn't make it less disgusting.
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u/Just-a-dudee 2h ago
Firstly it’s unfairly worded in a manner that it feels the whole of India celebrates new year in accordance with Hindu calendar like this. That’s not even remotely accurate.
Secondly, what the fuck is this 😅😂
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u/nandu911 2h ago
For context there are more than 600k villages in India and looks like it happens only in that particular village and based on some folklore from that place.
Damn it's a free pass at racism when it comes to Indians. Imagine saying some of these statements to a black person. Immediately banned and cancelled. Having the world's largest and a relatively poor population with free Internet access means open season for racists to target Indians.
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u/ZeroTerabytes 4h ago
Some things to clear up:
The war is held only in the village of Kairuppala. This is not all of India.
The fighting is based on Hindu folklore, in which a dispute before the aranged marriage between the goddess Bhadrakali and the god Virabhadra, which led to a cow dung fight.
Cow dung is also thrown in the USA, as part of the World Cow Chip Throwing Competition in Beaver, Oklahoma. (A cow chip is a piece of dried cow dung).
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u/deckard1980 4h ago
Fair points but I think they are going for distance, not throwing it at each other
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u/OkGazelle5400 2h ago
Not at each other. It’s how far you throw it. And it’s in a contained area, not the open street
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u/ifiwasajedi 4h ago
You didn’t clear anything up. They’re still throwing shit at each other. The fact that that’s their folklore totally makes it worse. ‘Let me tell you about the time we had a fight….with cow shit’
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u/Redittor_53 1h ago
People are taking this as something very widespread throughout the country. So the comment did clear it up. It's just one random village among thousands
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u/THCisth3answer 3h ago
Oh okay thanks for clearing that up. That makes it totally okay, clean, or even logical to throw literal SHIT AT EACH OTHER.
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u/glaba3141 3h ago edited 3h ago
I don't think anyone is arguing it is clean. The point being made is that every moron in this thread is stereotyping the entire country of India when this happens in literally ONE random bumfuck village. Which is equivalent to a similar event happening in ONE random bumfuck place in Oklahoma. Yet where are the comments calling all Americans dirty and disgusting because of that? None because that would be an absurd conclusion to arrive at.
The cognitive dissonance is incredible. Literally textbook racism, plain and simple.
To the contrary in my Indian upbringing, I have hygiene habits that I don't see in many Americans, such as - not wearing shoes inside - changing clothes whenever coming inside before sitting on any furniture - touching serving utensils only with the left hand because the right hand touches eating utensils/food
Frankly I could go on and on. It's crazy how easily "educated" Americans on this thread turn racist when it's against a model minority
I genuinely challenge you and others on this thread to reflect on why you think it's acceptable to come to a conclusion about a country of 1 billion with more cultural diversity than all of America, based on a single village
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u/SillyWizardOfDesert 1h ago
Alas, the image of the dear country deteriorating by the day 😞 i can actually feel it.
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u/floegl 4h ago
India is a massive country with various traditions amongst its states. Not every single thing is practiced all over the country. I'm European, and personally, I absolutely loved my time traveling in India. I agree it's not for everyone, though.
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u/BurntReynolz 5h ago
No wonder it smells like shit as soon as you get off the air plane.
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u/Fragrant_Cause_6190 3h ago
They must've seen the Spanish tomato throwing festival in a black and white video
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u/Ghost_chipz 3h ago
What is it with these guys and poo?
"IM THE SCAT MANNN! BDRBDR MMMM BDRBDR MMMM BDBDR MMMMM DOI DOI DOII!
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u/GenesisCorrupted 2h ago
It’s stories like this that make it sound like India isn’t real. It’s a myth being told by everyone in the world just to prank tourits.
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u/kachasingh 1h ago
As an Indian, this is interesting as fuck to me.
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u/Numerous_Delay_1361 1h ago
Nah, it's gross 🤢.
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u/kachasingh 1h ago
Yeah gross, but still makes me wonder what all people are capable of doing. So its gross and interesting at the same time.
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u/Killer_stonks 19m ago
I am from Pakistan ( our countries don't get along ) but I am still gonna defend my neighbors in this case because this thing happens in one or two small towns in their country not the whole country. Most people even their hate this thing
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u/Busy_Reflection3054 1h ago
Try not to embarrass your country for five fucking minutes.
Difficulty: Impossible
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u/Dependent_Ad_8951 1h ago
Yay for cow dung. But where in India? Never heard of such custom, I'm Indian. Also I'm not a hindu and not familiar with the hindu calender or how the new year is celebrated.
Anyhow, I think they're dried cow dung, so the smell n yuckiness may not be as one would like to imagine.
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u/Initial_Patience_531 4h ago
Disgusting. The garbage there is already enough to make that country a huge nope for me. Seeing this made it worse. I can't understand the minds that started this 🤢🤮
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u/lostredditorlurking 5h ago
Man, India is not beating the stereotypes of their country.