Men wearing the yellow t-shirts are creating the human piramid in the auspicious occasion of 'Dahi Handi' festival.
Dahi Handi' is an Indian festival that comprises making a human pyramid and breaking an earthen pot filled with milk, curd, butter, fruits and water and known as a 'handi' or 'matki', which is hung at a convenient height. It is organized on Krishna Janmashtami every year to celebrate the birth of the Lord Shri Krishna all over the state of Maharashtra, India.
The term Govinda is used to refer to the people who participate in forming this human pyramid. The participants form a pyramid consisting of as many as 9-tiers, and are given three attempts to break the earthen pot.
Every year thousands of people gather at Mumbai and Thane's big 'Dahi Handi' events. The prize money for the events usually range between Rs. 1 lakh-2 crore depending on the organizers and its sponsors.
During childhood Lord Shri Krishna and his friends in Vrindavan, the village where Lord Krishna was brought up, used to form a human pyramid to break the 'Dahi Handis' hung in their houses in order to steal the curd and butter from them. The reason for Lord Shri Krishna stealing curd and butter from the Handis was that during King Kaunsa's rule(Lord Krishna's maternal uncle) small chidren of Vrindavan village were deprived of healthy milk products produced in their villages as their parents were forced to send all milk products produced in Vrindavan to King Kaunsa's Mathura village.
source - Wikipedia
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