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Know about Sonepur Mela, the largest cattle fair in Asia

New Delhi: The Sonepur Mela is organized in the Indian state of Bihar, every year in auspicious Hindu month of Karthik.  Also known as Harihar Kshetra Mela, it is a month-long mela or fair where



The vast multitude of people transforms this small town of Sonepur for a month into a vast cauldron of merriment and celebration. 



Other than the livestock, the sprawling mela ground comes alive with music and dance theatres, carnival and joy rides, magic shows, colourful street food, hawkers peddling all kinds of stuff, sadhus selling Ayurveda and local medicine, cloth merchants, huge number of local jewellery and handicraft stalls, even modern automobiles and tractors make this fair an unique event.  



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