How Kodavas celebrate Puthari, a harvest festival, in Bengaluru
The HinduThe Kodava community will celebrate Puthari, the harvest festival that holds cultural and spiritual significance for the community, on Saturday, December 14. Puthari, which means “new rice” in Kodava language, is a thanksgiving festival that celebrates the rice harvest, symbolising abundance and prosperity. At the Kodava Samaja in Vasanth Nagar, members gather every year to symbolically harvest paddy grown on a small plot within the premises. There, we symbolically harvest some paddy crop and bring back home the paddy sheaves,” said Mohan Devaiah, a member of Kodava Samaja in Bengaluru. Reviving forgotten traditions Ajjinikanda Mahesh Nachaiah, President of the Karnataka Kodava Sahithya Academy, said, “Kodavas have always been an agrarian community, and rice was their staple crop before coffee cultivation became prevalent in Kodagu.
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