While the Lathmar Holi festival celebrated a few days before Holi is well known, the Huranga festivities at the Dauji Temple near Mathura is less famous. Celebrated a day after Holi, the Huranga festival witnesses a rather strange ritual. Soon after the morning darshan, around 10,000 devotees from Baldev and neighbouring villages gather in the temple courtyard. The two hours that follow see the temple compound into a battleground. Men pour buckets of saffron-tinged water on women, who retaliate by tearing their shirts off and thrashing them with it. Essentially a game between devarand bhabhi, the idea is to give the women a chance to get back at men for all the pranks they have played during the year.