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Even though the Badaga culture has undergone some degree of normalization, parts and fragments of the roots of their colture still persist. The elderly women of this community wear the mundu wrapped around the body and the thundu tied on the head. The people of the community are very fond of the white colour, so one can spot them dressed in this particular colour on all occasions and the most highlighting thing is the white turban. As per the tradition of the badaga community, Hethai Amman god is not supposed to be displayed in photos.
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Badaga dance is the high lighting custom performed to please and make the goddess happy. Hethai festival though is a customary and traditional festival people enjoy and celebrate this particular carnival a lot. Hethai festival is a major festival and is celebrated in a grand way. Kada Hethai and kada Aiya are some of the names of Hethai gods. Hethai Amman is the goddess of the Badaga people. As there are more than three hundred odd hattis (villages) in Ooty, every village consists of at least hundred houses. Among the wide spread green carpet, the houses bloom like tiny huts and little cottages. The houses portray the richness of the culture and the heart of the people. Badaga community is wide spread in the villages of Ootacamund.(called as Ooty) Badaga houses are fascinating and traditional buildings. Ībout Badagas Badaga is one of the unique communities which has its own rich set of traditions and customs. The gentle rolling hills, so reminiscent of the Downs of England, are a sea of green tea bushes, dotted with the red of poinsettias in the winter and the lilac of jacaranda in the summer. Today, the Nilgiris remain a major centre for tea production and tourism.
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Rolling grasslands, dense shoals, waterfalls, streams, lakes, vast expanse of tea plantations, interspersed with vegetable gardens, spectacular view points, an amazing variety of flora and fauna, fabulous trekking trails, innumerable heritage sites, spell binding sunrises and sunsets, magical light, pollution free atmosphere, mist, clouds, fog, star studded skies, serenity etc. It still remains a tourist attraction and a journey through the tea gardens at its gentle pace is a must for every traveller with an eye for beauty. In 1899 the Nilgiris Mountain Railway was completed to ease the journey to the hills and back. In 1827, Ooty was declared the summer capital of Madras presidency. The British found the gentle undulating slopes ideal for growing tea and the pleasant climate in the hills made Ooty the natural choice of residence in the scorching summer months. There were many Badaga community men and women donning their traditional dress at the meeting.The Nilgiris (Blue Mountains), are part of the Western Ghats mountain range and run across the Southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala.
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Many villagers threaten that they may cross vote which will affect the party”, Ramachandran claimed.Ĭountering this, Mubharak donned the traditional Badaga attire on at the rousing reception accorded to him near Coonoor bus stand.ĭMK cadre said the reception was to welcome Mubharak as the candidate for Coonoor Assembly constituency as he has just returned after getting the blessings of party chief Karunanidhi. I have done many useful works to Coonoor constituency and I stand to be a winning candidate. We see no reason to change my candidature when I was among the few who got elected in 2011. The party high command has also not received complaints against me. Thousands of Badaga community people assembled in Kotagiri recently and asserted their backing to Ramachandran. “I have also personally conveyed the real situation to party chief M Karunanidhi and Treasurer M K Stalin”, he disclosed. He said that hundreds of representations have been sent to party leadership by villagers who support his candidature.