Bonalu is an important Hindu festival dedicated to Goddess Shakti and is held in the Hindu calendar month of Ashadham every year. The festival is celebrated to ward off evil and usher in peace and harmony. Devotees at Bonalu Mahajan Rangam
Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao visited the Akkanna Madanna Mahankali Temple during Bonalu festival in Hyderabad on Sunday. (Photo: PTI)
Women in their traditional dress carry Bonam on their heads as part of the Bonalu festival in old city of Hyderabad on Sunday. (Photo: PTI)
An Indian man talks on his mobile phone as he walks with two children wearing masks of Hindu monkey god Hanuman during Bonalu festival celebrations in Hyderabad on Sunday. (Photo: AP)
An Indian male devotee wearing anklets dances during the folk festival of Bonalu in Hyderabad. (Photo: AP)
An Indian man dressed like a woman performs during the Bonalu festival in Hyderabad. (Photo: AP)
A man performs during the Bonalu festival in Hyderabad. Bonalu is a Hindu folk festival of the Telangana region in Andhra Pradesh. (Photo: AP)
Women perform the 'Kumkumma Archana' (prayers) at the start of the Bonalu festival at Akkana Maddana temple in the old city of Hyderabad. (PTI Photo)
A devotee of Hindu goddess Kali performs a ritual at the Bonalu festival procession. (Photo: AP)
A devotee of Hindu goddess Kali performs a ritual at the Bonalu festival procession at Secunderabad Ujjaini Mahakali temple. (Photo: AP)
An Indian man dances, balancing a decorated pot filled with cooked rice as an offering for the goddess Kali, on his head, during the Bonalu festival. (Photo: AP)
An Indian vendor watches the Bonalu festival procession, as she waits for customers to sell necklaces to at Secunderabad Ujjaini Mahakali temple in Hyderabad. (Photo: AP)