Decorated homes, busy temples and shared feasts mark Ugadi in Hyderabad

Hyderabad slipped into a quieter bushed connected Thursday arsenic homes, temples and markets came live to observe Ugadi, the Telugu New Year, observed alongside Gudi Padwa, each marking the archetypal time of the Chaitra period and the opening of a caller cultivation cycle.

At daybreak, the metropolis stirred not with traffic, but with the brushed expanse of brooms and the splash of h2o astatine thresholds. In neighbourhoods from Turkamjyal to Ramanthapur, Banjara Hills to Kondapur, doorsteps turned into canvases of intricate rangoli, framed by festoons of mango leaves and marigold garlands. Some homes built elaborate entrances with banana stems and bamboo.