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Bathukamma
Telangana's flower festival: women stack seasonal blooms into a cone, sing around it, and dress in new sarees.
What is worn for Bathukamma
Bathukamma is the flower festival of Telangana. For nine days, beginning on the new moon before Navaratri, women gather flowers such as marigold, celosia and tangedu, and stack them in rings to form a cone. In the evening they place the Bathukamma on the ground, circle it clapping and singing in groups, and on the last day, Saddula Bathukamma, they carry the flower mounds to a pond or river and set them afloat. Women dress in new or best sarees for the evenings, and the Telangana government has handed out sarees to women before the festival in recent years. Handloom sarees of the region, such as Pochampally and Gadwal, are part of the picture.
The sarees
Also part of it, and being written: Pochampally Ikat (Ikat sarees from the Pochampally cluster, Telangana.).
Written by the EveryPallu desk with AI assistance. Background: "Bathukamma" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.