PART – A
My dear ardent learners,
There is festival ambience in both the Telugu states. The Telugu people are celebrating Bathukamma and Dussehra festivals with religious fervour, enthusiasm and devotion. Telangana is vibrant with the Bathukamma Festival .
Festivals symbolise our culture and past heritage and glory. Festivals afford us an opportunity to mingle with the people and share joys and feelings with others. Festivals are wonderful occasions to put aside our misunderstandings, hatred and differences.
In brief, they represent our  'togetherness.'
Bathukamma Festival
Bathukamma means 'Goddess of Life' or 'festival if life.' It is a nine-day long festival. It is a flower festival mainly celebrated in Telangana. lt begins in the last week of September and ends in October. As such, it embraces both the months. This year Bathukamma festival began on 25th.  It ends on October 3rd .It is not only the last day of the festival but an important day. It is known as  Saddula Bathukamma.This nine-day long festival has a name for each day like Dussehra festival.
How does the preparation go?
The festival starts on the Mahalaya Amavasya. This nine day festival culminates on Saddula Bathukamma on Ashwayuja Astami.  During the festival , women wear traditional dresses They decorate a special pot with the seasonal flowers.They fill it with the offerings to the goddess and worship every day. On the last day of the festival, all go in procession and immerse the pot in a local pond or a river.
Bathukamma is a beautiful flower-stack. Flowers are beautifully arranged in nine close layers. It looks like a temple gopuram. Songs are sung to invoke 'the goddesses.'
Women, girls and children participate in this festival very enthusiastically. Different Naivedyams are offered during these nine days.In making these.Corn, bajra, blackgram, greebgram, groundnuts, sesame, wheat, ruce, jaggery, cashew nuts, and milk are used . On Saddula Bathukamma Day, the last day of the festival, as a Naivedyam, Maleeda - a combination of jaggery and roti - is made and offered to the goddess Bathukamma. This  Saddula bathukamma coincides with Durgaastami of Dussehra. On this day,   women, girls and children all take the flower- decorated pots and immerse them in a local pond or river
PART-B
Read the text thoroughly. Some questions and some answers are given .For questions, you have to give answers . Frame questions to the answers. You have to supply what is missing. Say it orally first with your friend.
1. What is Telangana vibrant with?
2. what do festivals symbolize?
3. Bathukamma means ' the goddess of life or festival of life.
4. Bathukamma is a nine-day long festival.
5. Saddula Bathukamma is celebrated on October 3rd.
6. When is Maleeda made? And how?
PART– C
Notes and explanation :
1. ambience = atmosphere or feeling of a place
*Our colony has a village ambience.
2. fervour = a very strong feeling for
or belief in it.
*His speech aroused our nationalist fervour.
3. vibrant = resonant or resounding
*The vibrant sounds of the drums matched the mood of the people.
4. symbolise = stand for, signify
*Green lights in traffic language symbolise..
Go.

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