Every year, for thousands of years, the Sonepur Mela, transforms a small rural town in north Bihar into a giant fair.Rediff.com's Archana Masih spent a day in the rural fair that once drew......
Asia's oldest and largest cattle fair may soon lose its star attraction.Report, Photographs: M I Khan IMAGE: An elephant at the Sonepur cattle fair. Neighing horses. Heavy-lidded cattle,......
A pair of tourists journeyed to north Bihar to catch the flavour of the famous Sonepur Cattle Mela that is held on Karthik Purnima on the confluence of the Ganga and the Gandak. But this Dutch......