Batukamma, the floral festival of Telangana is a celebration of life. A celebration of harmony with nature. A kind of bliss we rarely find in the contemporary world. A blend of personnel and community in the wake of post modernism.
Kandukuri Ramesh Babu
The festival has a greater role in the lives of Telangana women as the tradition unifies with modernity and lives dance with the tune of Nature.
It’s a festival of songs and dances from the very court yards of homes to the river banks. A festival of activity that involves physical and mental energy. And of course a unique festival that itself transforms lives at spiritual level.
All the steps draws circular forms certainly weaves in to a magical thread of a ‘chorus’ that heard and seen radiantly as a true community harmony in Telangana.
The festival not only purifies the water body in the lakes and tanks with natural flowers but also purifies the very negative energy in their lives. The songs and dances all together make the women more natural and pious to lead sensitive and responsible lives.
The colorful flower pots meticulously shaped step by step and the various songs composed time to time in the tested times are sung one by one and all the steps draws circular forms certainly weaves in to a magical thread of a ‘chorus’ that heard and seen radiantly as a true community harmony in Telangana.
The dance of the women is aesthetically appealing and all the women while singing the songs appear as a bud sprouts in to flower. It’s nothing but a floral congregation.
The songs they sing are a treasure of oral literature and all kinds of mythical and contemporary issues become songs and the women folk naturally imbibes a kind of real education time to time.
Batukamma is an epic story of songs is a divine experience to watch and feel which enriches the landscapes of Telangana with all kinds of hues.
The cone shaped Batukkamma is nothing but the mother womb. And the celebration is itself a tribute to the very birth and women hood together. The play and dance around Batukamma make the women folk healthy in body and spirit. In fact, the nine kinds of nivedhyas’women offer in all these days has great medicinal value and itself strengthen woman’s menstrual cycle.
In the modern world of virtual reality Telangana women has the great luxury in this festival times. They celebrate true human relations through the Batukamma festival. As all the married women folk come back to their native places on this festival occasion and spend nine days with their relatives and friends, thus they find immense joy and together share all kinds of problems in domestic lives and find solvation. Thus they will be enriched with much more energy through the wonderful union and reunion of the tradition and culture in the times of modernity.
The festival and rejuvenate their lives and at last immerse all kinds of burdens at the end of this festival
Without cast barriers, all the women folk engage in the festival and rejuvenate their lives and at last immerse all kinds of burdens at the end of this festival and invite life afresh. That is the poetic justice of the festival.
Batukamma is an epic story of songs is a divine experience to watch and feel which enriches the landscapes of Telangana with all kinds of hues. Itself a feat of mother earth dances to the tunes of nature.
Humble salutes to the women folk and mother Telangana.