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After the sowing of crops in July, as part of a bi-annual 800 yr old #tradition, lakhs of #pilgrims/ warkaris from all over rural Maharashtra walk a distance of around 240 kms from Dehu & Alandi to meet their beloved Lord Vithoba. ruralindiaonline.org/articles/walki… 
Over the centuries many poets from Maharashtra belonging to the progressive #Bhakti tradition of devotional poetry have walked the Wari. Such was their influence that even centuries later the pilgrims go to Pandharpur to honour the reformist poet-saints. ruralindiaonline.org/articles/the-e…
Listen to the #grindmill songs that they sing as they walk the #wari: ruralindiaonline.org/articles/the-p…. ruralindiaonline.org/articles/walki…
