Now, your own memories of ‘Harvest Festivals’ might be dominated by slightly lame collections of tinned food at school to give to local, old people. But with the Maramadi Festival in Kerala in Southern India, these guys know how to celebrate in style. When it comes to the fun stakes, singing hymns while filling baskets with out-of-date baked beans certainly pales in comparison to high-speed bull surfing.
That’s right, those fun-loving villagers in Anandapally in Kerala mark the post-harvest season by gathering to watch competitors making a splash by surfing through flooded fields while being dragged along by pairs of rampant bulls.
