Blogs — Dahi Handi

Somewhere above a Mumbai street, a pot of curd hangs forty feet in the air. Below it, hundreds of young men stack themselves shoulder to shoulder, five, six, sometimes nine layers high, until one boy at the very top reaches out and shatters it with his bare fist.The crowd erupts. Curd rains down. And for one wild second, a five-thousand-year-old act of childhood naughtiness becomes the most electric event on the calendar. This is Dahi Handi, and in 2026 it lands on Saturday, September 5 — Bhadrapada Krishna Navami, the day right after Krishna Janmashtami.What is Dahi Handi?Dahi Handi, meaning...