Bathukamma

Come be part of Bathukamma, a colourful floral festival of Telangana celebrated by its womenfolk with exotic flowers of the region.

Bathukamma festival has over the years become a symbol of Telangana culture and identity. It is celebrated during the latter half of monsoon, before the onset of winter. Bathukamma is actually a beautiful flower stack, arranged with different unique seasonal flowers most of them with medicinal values, in seven concentric layers in the shape of a temple gopuram. In Telugu, ‘Bathukamma' means ‘Mother Goddess come Alive’ and Goddess Maha Gauri -‘ Life Giver’ is worshipped in the form of Bathukamma - the patron goddess of womanhood.

The monsoon rains usually bring plenty of water into the ponds and tanks of Telangana and it is also the time when wild flowers bloom in various vibrant colours across the uncultivated and barren plains of the region. The most abundant of these flowers are ‘gunuka’ (or ‘gunugu’) and ‘tangedu’. There are other flowers like the ‘banti’, ‘chamanti’, ‘nandi-vardhanam’, etc.