Trumpets blare and drum beats resonate across hills and mountains as a retinue of Himachali men carry a deity, decked in garlands and gold, to the town of Kullu. Some come from as close as the adjoining valley of Banjar, 58 km to the right of Kullu, while others from days afar at forced march to make it for the annual congregation of deities during the festival of Dussehra.
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Held in October each year, Dusshera is Himachal’s equivalent to the Christian Carnival and is celebrated with equal pomp and show. First recorded in the 17th century, the ten-day-long festival is a meeting ground of villages separated by distance and their patron gods, who even in the days of automobiles and concrete roads are ferried on foot from miles away.
