Odisha's Keddasa: Rajo Parba โ Tulupedia

Every April, as the sun crosses from Pisces into Aries, families in Tulunadu wake before dawn to arrange the Bisu Kani - a tableau of abundance that welcomes the Tulu New Year.

Gidigere Ramakka Mugerthi was born in Vamanjoor, in the Mangalore taluk of Karnataka, to parents Kokra Muggera and Duggamma.

Bada Poojary hailed from the Iruvail Panila family in the Tulunad, deeply embedded in agrarian and rural-sport traditions.