By Ravi Rohmetra

North India’s biggest fair, celebrated on Kartik Purnima, honours the sacrifice and spirit of honesty, courage, and selflessness.

According to an ancient legend, there was an honest, truthful, and simple farmer called Baba Jitto, a Brahmin and devotee of Mata Vaishno Devi and Raja Mandalik. Jitto lived in Aghar village, near Katra, Vaishno Devi.

He grew fed up with the attitude of his aunt Jojan and decided to leave the village. He met Mehta Bir Singh, the Kardar of Ambgrota in Jammu, and urged him to provide a piece of land for tilling. Bir Singh gave him a piece of barren land after signing an agreement, which was written and signed by King Ajaib Dev. Jitto was asked to give one-fourth of his produce to the King.

He worked hard day and night and transformed the barre

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