Dogra folk festival ‘Bacch Dua’ celebrated In Jammu. According to a legend, miscommunication between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law led to the latter cooking Bacch (male calf) instead of Mach (fish). On noticing this blunder, both mother-in-law and daughter-in-law prayed to God and begged Bacch back to life before the mother cow returns from fields. Hence women celebrate it and male child symbolic of slaughtered bacch has ceremonial importance on the day.
