Balkampet Yellamma Kalyanotsavam (Hyderabad)
Historic Hyderabad urban festival conducting celestial wedding of Goddess Yellamma immersed in holy water spring.
Essays on Sanatana Dharma, astronomical science behind Hindu festivals, temple architecture, and practical Vedic philosophy.
Historic Hyderabad urban festival conducting celestial wedding of Goddess Yellamma immersed in holy water spring.
Historic opening of month-long Bonalu festival with offerings ascending the 360 steps of Golconda Fort.
Largest Bonalu fair with thousands of women carrying decorated pot lamps and oracle Rangam foretelling the year.
Honoring the immortal Telugu saint-composer who built Bhadrachalam Rama temple and surrendered all to Sri Rama.
Birth anniversary of natural devotional poet Bammera Potana who translated Srimad Bhagavatam into sweet Telugu.
Confluence festival where Godavari meets the Bay of Bengal during Bhishma Ekadashi.
Telugu serpent worship festival offering milk, eggs, and chalimidi at snake ant-hills (Putta).
Honors victory of Lord Kartikeya over demon Taraka; renowned for removing Kuja and Naga doshas.
Concludes Karthika Masam with lighting miniature lamps on plantain trunk boats in rivers.
Grand celebration of lighting ten million lamps across temples and public grounds during Karthika.
Grand nine-day annual vehicle festival consecrated originally by Lord Brahma at Tirumala hills.
Celestial wedding ceremony of Sri Veera Venkata Satyanarayana Swamy at Ratnagiri hills.
Grand annual festival at Jyotirlinga and Shakti Peetha with Pagalankarana (turban decoration).
Grand temple festival of Lord Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy at renovated Yadadri shrine.
Famous hill shrine festival with towering electrically illuminated bamboo chariots (Prabhas).
Fourth day of festive harvest season with joyous village sports, feasts, and family gatherings.
Grand finale of the nine-day floral festival where massive flower stacks are immersed in lakes.
Asia largest tribal pilgrimage where millions offer jaggery (Bangaram) to courageous forest deities.