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Although we ourselves kept our paint activities close to home, there were clearly bigger scrums going on in town.

The entire afternoon was a procession of thousands of purple-hued individuals packed onto moped and motorbikes.

The Gangapur Road joins the centre of town with the dam out to the west. On the way, the Someshwar falls are apparently a popular spot to communally clean all this off.

But this year, the authorities closed the falls “to protect water quality”. So there were just as many gaudy individuals driving east as there were west.

And gaudy – indeed somewhat scary – the sight was. Meatloaf would have been proud.

(Also, trust me, it takes more than a waterfall to get that dye out.)