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As the wintertime approaches, the women of Telangana wage floral tributes to Mother Nature successful a unsocial way.
Bathukamma is simply a solemnisation of the intrinsic enslaved betwixt earth, water, and humankind. Observed according to the Satavahana calendar, the nine-day festival begins connected Bhadrapada Purnima (also known arsenic Mahalaya Amavasya oregon Pitru Amavasya) and concludes connected Durgashtami, typically falling successful September oregon October.
Each time of Bathukamma carries a chiseled sanction and value — marking stages of devotion, harvest, and togetherness.
More than a festival, Bathukamma stands arsenic a vibrant emblem of Telangana’s taste individuality and feminine spirit. Women from each walks of beingness travel unneurotic to handcraft stunning floral stacks — intricate arrangements symbolising gratitude and reverence for nature. The aerial fills with music, rhythmic clapping, and accepted songs, creating a mosaic of joy, unity, and spiritual energy. This year, Telangana witnessed a record-breaking celebration: a 63-foot-tall Bathukamma, crafted with 13 tonnes of flowers, entered the Guinness World Records, becoming a arrogant awesome of the State’s corporate devotion and creativity. Women, transcending boundaries of caste, creed, religion, oregon nationality, gathered successful ample numbers to people the juncture with unmatched zeal and enthusiasm.
For farmers, the play brought brisk enactment arsenic they supplied immense quantities of marigold, a cardinal angiosperm successful Bathukamma arrangements. Yet, with request soaring beyond supply, artificial flowers besides made an appearance.
Bathukamma frankincense continues to bloom, a surviving look of Telangana’s reverence for nature, its tone of community, and its solemnisation of womanhood.
Photo: Nagara Gopal
Rhythm of tradition: Young women people the archetypal time of Bathukamma, dancing to people songs that observe the tone and individuality of Telangana.
Photo: Nagara Gopal
On the move: A pistillate transports her intricately arranged Bathukamma successful a car done the streets of Kukatpally.
Photo: Nagara Gopal
Vibrant blossoms: Bathukammas crafted from layers of flowers are placed connected the crushed arsenic women execute accepted dances and sing festive songs.
Photo: Nagara Gopal
Joyful gathering: Decked successful finery and bearing baskets of flowers, women stitchery astatine the Bhagya Lakshmi Temple adjacent Charminar.
Photo: NAGARA GOPAL
Golden harvest: Farmers harvest fields of marigold cultivated for the Bathukamma festival connected the outskirts of Hyderabad.
Photo: Nagara Gopal
Final offering: On the past time of the festival, women stitchery astatine Hyderabad’s Tank to bid farewell to the goddess.
Photo: Nagara Gopal
Rainbow circle: Women travel unneurotic to observe the festival with songs, dance, and stacks of flowers.
Photo: Nagara Gopal
Floral marvel: On the penultimate time of the festival, a 63-foot-tall floral statement made of 10.7 tonnes of flowers stacked successful 11 layers was unveiled astatine Saroornagar Indoor Stadium, mounting a Guinness World Record. It took the enactment of 300 radical arranging the flowers implicit 3 days.
Photo: Nagara Gopal
Building bridges: In the backdrop of Telangana Martyrs’ memorial, women stock the festival spirit.
Photo: Nagara Gopal
Parting petals: Women bring their Bathukammas to Kukatpally Lake successful Hyderabad for immersion, marking the festival’s closing.
