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Ugadi
The new year of Andhra, Telangana and Karnataka, with ugadi pachadi of six tastes and new silk or handloom sarees.
What is worn for Ugadi
Ugadi is the new year of the Telugu and Kannada peoples, kept on the first day of the bright fortnight of Chaitra, in March or April. Mango leaves are hung over the door, houses are cleaned and families eat ugadi pachadi, a chutney of six tastes: sweet jaggery, sour tamarind, salt, bitter neem flower, hot pepper and raw mango, for the different tastes of the year ahead. The almanac, the panchangam, is read at the temple. People bathe in oil, put on new clothes, and women wear new silk sarees or the handloom of their region, from Pochampally and Gadwal in Telangana to Mysore silk and Ilkal in Karnataka. Mangalagiri and Venkatagiri are worn in Andhra.
The sarees
Also part of it, and being written: Pochampally Ikat (Ikat sarees of Telangana.), Mysore silk (Light crepe silk of Karnataka.).
Written by the EveryPallu desk with AI assistance. Background: "Ugadi" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.