Gussadi Dance Of Telangana

• 03 Feb 2021

• Gussadi dance exponent Kanaka Raju of Telangana was bestowed with the Padma Shri honour 2021.
• The Gusadi Dance of Gonds Deepavali is the biggest festival for the Raj Gonds of Adilabad district in Telangana.
• Gonds dressed in colourful costumes and decorated with ornaments go to neighbouring villages in troupes, singing and dancing. Such troupes are called Dandari dance troupes.
• Each member puts on a turban of peacock feathers and horns of the deer, artificial beard and moustaches and goatskin to cover the body.
• This starts on the full moon day and goes on till the fourteenth day of the dark fortnight of Deepavali.