Bathukamma Festival
- Bathukamma is a flower-festival celebrated by the women of Telangana and some parts of Andhra Pradesh.
- Bathukamma is celebrated for nine days and corresponds to the festivals of Sarada Navratri and Durga Puja.
Women celebrating Bathukamma Festival
- It starts on the day of Mahalaya Amavasya and the 9-day festivities will culminate on “Saddula Bathukamma” or “Pedda Bathukamma.”
- Bathukamma is a beautiful flower stack, arranged with different unique seasonal flowers most of them with medicinal values, in seven concentric layers in the shape of temple gopuram.
- In Telugu, ‘Bathukamma’ means ‘Mother Goddess come Alive’.
- Historically, Bathukamma meant “the festival of life” and was a celebration of the harvest season in the Deccan region (October).
- During these celebrations, there are dance performances, music, dramas and a variety of entertainments as thousands of tourists and locals too, flock to witness the happenings.
- ‘Jataras’ are also held during this month long celebrations.
Syllabus : Prelims; Art and culture
