Cheriyal Wall Art Wall Art

Cheriyal Wall Art — 43 museum-grade prints on the theme. Cheriyal scrolls come from Cheriyal village in Telangana's Siddipet district, painted for generations by the Nakashi artist community. They were long narrative cloth scrolls unrolled episode by episode by travelling balladeer-storytellers — the kaki padagollu and allied story-telling castes — who sang the epics and caste-origin legends to village audiences through the night. Bathukamma is Telangana's autumn flower festival, held over nine days around Durga Navaratri, when women build a conical stack of seasonal blooms — gunugu, tangedu, marigold — and circle it singing through the evening before floating it on a tank or lake. Cheriyal scroll painting itself comes from Cheriyal village in Telangana's Siddipet district, painted by the Nakashi artist community on a signature red ground and once unrolled by travelling balladeers to narrate epics and caste legends. Bonalu is a Telangana folk festival honouring the goddess Mahankali, observed through the month of Ashada (July–August) and centred on the temples of Hyderabad and Secunderabad. Women carry bonam — cooked rice with milk and jaggery in a decorated pot, topped with neem and a lamp — to the temple as an offering, while Pothuraju, a whip-cracking male devotee, leads the procession.

Updated 22 Jun 2026