Flower arranging with the girls in Hyderabad…
Bathukamma is widely celebrated by the Hindu women of Hyderabad and the surrounding Telangana region of India where elaborate floral displays topped by a pumpkin flower (Bathukamma) are worshipped as the embodiment of the goddess Gauri, the goddess of womanhood.
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Picture: Bathukamma by kamar827, on Flickr

Flower arranging with the girls in Hyderabad…

Bathukamma is widely celebrated by the Hindu women of Hyderabad and the surrounding Telangana region of India where elaborate floral displays topped by a pumpkin flower (Bathukamma) are worshipped as the embodiment of the goddess Gauri, the goddess of womanhood.

More on Bathukamma Festival by Somewhere in the world today…

Picture: Bathukamma by kamar827, on Flickr