Telangana: Bathukamma fervour takes over KCR's residence
5 Oct 2016 8:15 PM IST5 Oct 2016 8:15 PM IST
In Telangana, Bathukamma is a medium to unite the state women and Telugu women who have migrated abroad.
Member of Parliament in the Lower house and Telangana Jagruthi founder-president Kalvakuntla Kavitha celebrated the colorful and vibrant festival of Telangana, Bathukamma, this year.- The \"Bathukammalu\" are slowly immersed into water after some more playing and singing. Then women share a dessert amongst the family members and neighbourhood folks. They return to their homes with empty 'taambaalam' singing songs in praise of Bathukamma.
- Before the onset of dusk, the women folk carry them on their heads and move as a procession towards a bigger water body near the village or town.
- As evening approaches the women folk dress colourfully and place the Bathukamma in their court yard, and sing songs by circling it repeatedly, building a beautiful human circle of unity, love, sisterhood.
- On the last day, the men folk of the house go into the wild plains and gather the flowers like gunuka and tangedi, and bring home bagfuls of these flowers and the entire household sits down to make the big 'Bathukamma'.
- The festival begins a week before the grand 'Saddula Bathukamma' (the grand finale of the Bathukamma festival) that falls two days before Dassera.
- The monsoon rains usually brings plenty of water into the fresh water ponds of Telangana and it is also the time when wild flowers bloom in various vibrant colors all across the uncultivated and barren plains of the region.
- This festival is a symbol of Telangana cultural identity. Bathukamma comes during the latter half of monsoon, before the onset of winter.
- Bathukamma is a colorful and vibrant festival of Telangana. Bathukamma festival is celebrated by women, with flowers that grow exclusively in each region.
- The Bathukammas are made by arranging the flowers, carefully, row after row in a brass plate in circular rows and in alternate colours.
- Telangana is a new state which came into existence after a long fight in which the floral festival was the medium to unite the state women and Telugu women migrated abroad.
Member of Parliament in the Lower house and Telangana Jagruthi founder-president Kalvakuntla Kavitha celebrated the colorful and vibrant festival of Telangana, Bathukamma, this year.
In Telangana, Bathukamma is a medium to unite the state women and Telugu women who have migrated abroad.
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