The Kambala season is right here in coastal Karnataka and buffaloes (and their ‘runners’) are again race tracks to take part on this conventional occasion. The Karnataka Tourism Division has already launched a schedule of occasions for December.
What’s Kambala?
Kambala is a buffalo race held within the winter months when farmers harvest their paddy crops. The race is held on two parallel tracks crammed with mud and water. Every pair of buffaloes can even have a jockey, or ‘Kambala runner’ to regulate and command the animals on the monitor.
The workforce that wins qualifies for larger rounds until a champion emerges.
Aside from successful the race, targets additionally embody splashing water; in actual fact, some winners are even declared on quantity of water splashed; that is referred to as ‘kolu’.
Profitable a Kambala race is seen as huge prize and the buffaloes that race are given particular remedy all year long.
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In February 2020, a ‘runner’ named Srinivas Gowda made headlines after he (and his buffaloes) reportedly ran 142.5 meters in simply 13.62 seconds.
The union sports activities ministry even invited him to the Sports activities Academy of India (SAI) headquarters in Delhi to conduct trials for worldwide sporting occasions.
Kambala has additionally made headlines this 12 months due to the success of Rishab Shetty and Saptami Gowda’s blockbuster movie ‘Kantara’.