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DID YOU KNOW? VOL. 17 No. 4
SOUTHERN SONGS melodies called talams which are
The Pulayar tribe performs

Southern India celebrates many festivals and follows many said to be inspired from the calls
traditions and rituals. Each of them brings with itself a unique of the birds.
Chirayu Belapurkar,Class 6,
song and music compostions.
Modern School Vasant
Vihar, New Delhi

TRYST WITH TODAS BEAUTIFUL BATHUKAMMA
TAMIL NADU
TELANGANA AND
The Toda tribe of Nilgiris are an important community of ANDHRA PRADESH
the region. They reside in the Nilgiri hills and have unique
rituals and traditions of their own. They even have their Bathukamma is a
own language. They have songs for various occasions festival of fl owers
such as weddings, harvests, funerals, etc. The song celebrated by the
mentioned below talks about the creation of Toda-land. women of Telangana.
A week-long festival,
Song: it involves women
It is the Creator who create all the three kingdoms. making small
It is the Lord who by his play created all the three directions. ‘Bathukammas’ which
It is the Lord who brought forth the Todas of all the many are conical structures
(around seven) divisions of the Munds. It is God who fostered made out of fl owers on
all the Todas. a brass plate. Every day,
small bathukammas
are made and immersed
into a nearby water body. On the fi nal day, a huge
bathukamma is made by each woman, helped by
MAPPILAPATTU their families. There is singing and dancing before
fi nally taking it to the waterbodies to immerse it. Each
KERALA day of the festival is fi lled with celebratory songs.
Mappilapattu or Mappila songs are songs of the Mapillah Bathukamma Bathukamma, Uyyalo
Muslim community of Kerala. Sung in Arabi-Malyalam Bangaru Bathukamma Uyyalo x2…
these songs are infl uenced by both Kerala’s folk songs
(Mother Goddess, come alive. The song narrates the story of king
and the Arab tradition. There are various kinds of Mappila
Dharmangada and queen Satyavati who are blessed with a baby
songs such as Malappattu, Urudi, Viruthangal, Kissukal, girl, Bathukamma, after several prayers.)
Khessukal and so on. The songs use words from many
G. Amrita, Class 6 A, Dhanyatha.N, Class 7A, Anvitha, Class 5 C,
diff erent languages such as Gitanjali Devakul School, Hyderabad; Chetana Goud, Class 12, Army
Hindi and Urdu aside from Public School, Bolarum, Secunderabad
Malayalam.

KRISHNA PARIJATHA

IDAKKA KARNATAKA
Krishna Parijatha is a
Idakka is a percussion popular folk theatre form
instrument of Kerala said to
of Karnataka made from the
have been sent to earth by combination of Yakshagana
Lord Nataraja. About one
and Bylatta themes. The story of
and half feet long, it has two Krishna Parijat is set around Krishna
heads out of which only one
and his two consorts Satyabhama and Rukmini. The
is played.
songs are performed in a group.

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