Badaga Calendar

Badaga Calendar 2008

Badaga Cal 2008

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….other months being added….

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Goodalu

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Like in any other calendar, there are 12 months and each month starts on the 10th of English Calendar month but for a few exceptions due to the fact that the month of Feb has 28/29 days [leap year].

I have attempted to make the Badaga Calendars for 2007 and 2008 keeping in mind that a Badaga month should start on the 10th of an English month as far as possible and also to ensure that the number of days in a month is either 30 or 31 days.

Since Badagas consider ‘Sovara’ (Monday) as the most auspicious and ‘holy’ day, they have attached a lot of importance to that day. Generaly, no non-vegetarian food is taken on Mondays. This is also the weekly holiday and hence shown on top in red colour. No ‘Hola Gelcha’[field work] is usually done on ’sovara’s.

The biggest festival of Badagas is day-specific and not date-specific. That is to say that this festival - HETHE HABBA – always falls on a Monday [after twelve full moons and on the first Monday of the thirteenth fullmoon]. By the way,full Moon (‘Pournami’ in Tamil) is ‘HUNNAVE’ [pronounced similar to :- hunnu – wound, awai – mother] and New Moon is ‘MUTTU’ in Badaga. Hunnave and Muttu days have a white and black circle next to the date.

I must put on record my great appreciation to Mr.Sivaprakash. B.Sc.,B.Ed (Dhavane Village) and ‘Naakku Betta’ magazine [1979 Goodalu issue] for their pioneering effort on this subject.

For the year 2007

1) Goodalu – From 10th Jan to 8th Feb

2) Aalaani - From 9th Feb to 10th Mar

3) Nallaani - From 11th Mar to 9th Apr

4) Aani - From 10th Apr to 9th May

5) Aadire - From 10th May to 9th Jun

6) Aadi - From 10th Jun to 9th Jul

7) Aavaani - From 10th Jul to 9th Aug

8 ) Perattaadhi - From 10th Aug to 9th Sep

9) Dhodda Devige - From 10th Sep to 9th Oct 9th Nov

10) Kiru Devige – from 10th Nov to 9th Dec

11) Thai - From 10th Nov to 9th Dec

12) Hemmatti - From 10th Dec to 9th Jan

Goodalu - Aalaani Nallaani - Aani

‘Aadhire & Aadi’ months Aavaani - Perattaadhi

Dhodda & Kiru Deevige Thai - Hemmatti

I am aware that there is always a slip between the cup and the lip and some errors could have crept into this attempt. May I request all those interested to keep up our great traditions to write in their comments and suggestions so that improvements can be incorporated.

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No articles, images and other material in this website can be reproduced without the written permission of
Wing Commander Bellie Jayaprakash B.E.(GCT,Madras Univ).,M.B.A (FMS, Delhi Univ)


Contact : bjaypee@gmail.com
belliejayaprakash©2008

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My dream is that a Badaga Calendar should adorn all our homes soon.

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Wing commander Bellie Jayaprakash’s other website from the heart for some ‘light’ reading

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30 Comments

  1. NAGULAN jOGHEE said,

    11/06/2007 at 6:46 am

    This is simply superb. The calendar pages can have “hethai Amman” Images.

  2. jagadeesh said,

    11/06/2007 at 6:59 am

    Great work..I like it very much…

  3. Ravi Balraj said,

    12/06/2007 at 6:30 am

    Fantastic and great work. This site is best and must for all the badagas. I thanks all the people behind this effort for their hard work and this is a major asset for our community.

  4. belliegbabu said,

    19/06/2007 at 5:35 am

    realy superb

  5. Nithya Priya Jagdish Halan said,

    21/06/2007 at 5:53 am

    Keep up the Good work!!!

  6. Godalatty Prashanth Sathu said,

    27/06/2007 at 5:07 pm

    Nice to see [such] important things in the web!!!

  7. Santhosh said,

    23/07/2007 at 11:31 am

    A great effort to bring our community forward… Appreciate the great piece of work. Keep it up…

  8. Santhosh- Milidhane said,

    23/07/2007 at 11:33 am

    Great work.I could say ‘a master piece… wish your dream come true soon’. We should have the Badaga Calanders by 2008.

  9. preethy said,

    09/08/2007 at 9:07 am

    its really great to know about the history of our customs and community. congratulations . good job. keep it up.

  10. darshini said,

    15/11/2007 at 12:23 pm

    cool blog! hats off to those who are behind this!! Will come back for more! Cheers!

    JP adds: Thank you, this weblog is an ONE MAN effort to pay back to the community in whatever humble way possible.

  11. ragul said,

    30/11/2007 at 7:02 am

    good work

  12. bellie said,

    10/12/2007 at 5:17 am

    we are having a proposal to print few copies and delivers to our community people ,good job,thanks a lot.

    JP adds : That will be wonderful. If every Badaga can mention all the months of badagas, that itself will be a great step. Give me a by line, if possible and please contact me for any help at bjaypee@gmail.com

  13. Ganesh,yedakad said,

    18/01/2008 at 9:18 pm

    good job

  14. Indrani Radhakrishna said,

    22/01/2008 at 4:59 am

    SIMPLY MARVELOUS!

  15. gnanasekar said,

    24/04/2008 at 8:54 am

    your work is speechless………………
    The nilgiris – heaven of the hills

  16. Pragash said,

    30/05/2008 at 2:40 pm

    Congrats to you . Well done

  17. Pradeep Jackanarai said,

    08/07/2008 at 1:45 pm

    no words 2 say…….. Thank U…..

  18. HB.Senthilkumar_Wellington, NZ said,

    12/07/2008 at 5:19 pm

    Really fantastic to know abt our historical community calendar,rare photos ….Great Going!!
    Vistor Map – Amazing work…
    Badaga songs on the web – A fabulous one to hear/find…

  19. Ashwin said,

    13/09/2008 at 9:24 pm

    Amazing! HATS OFF TO U. I AM REALLY PROUD OF U AS U BROUGHT OUR CULTURE VISIBLE TO THE WHOLE WORLD.GO AHEAD DUDE.

  20. senthilkumar said,

    29/09/2008 at 11:12 pm

    Senthilkumar writes :

    I am working as a microbiologist in skm egg product export india pvt ltd at Erode.I belong to Nunthala village.Today only I have gone through this calender. Really it is very amazing. Really I dont know about this kind of months. Really it is good to knowing many things about our community.Now I became a fan of you.Again and again I m saying that I have no words to appreciate you.

    Thank you Senthil, for all the kind words.

  21. mlle_sumathi said,

    05/10/2008 at 8:57 pm

    Once again appreciating & admiring you for the tireless endeavours you put to keep this ,our website, active , I humbly request you to share your plans for the Badaga calendar for 2009, atleast I ,am very impatiently waiting to own our calendar ,a first for our community and I am sure many of our friends do share the same sentiments.

    JP adds: I am grateful to friends like Mlle Sumathi who always have the positive comments to offer to make this website,as she rightly calls it “OUR WEBSITE“, one of informative and educative, especially to BADAGA YOUTH. The 2009 Calender is under preparation and will be put on the site soon.

  22. ANand NAnjan said,

    07/12/2008 at 12:06 am

    Really Amazing,,,, we have more to improve in our community

  23. Vimal K said,

    11/12/2008 at 5:39 pm

    Great work.I could say ‘a master piece…

  24. mlle_sumathi halan said,

    14/12/2008 at 5:00 pm

    It is really great and amazing, the commitment you have for our community. And you live up to our expectations , actually every time you surpass it.

    As promised, you have put up the badaga calendar. so 2009 ,we shall use only this calendar. what are the possibilities or your plans of a printed version? hope it is not too greedy a question & too early..

  25. Rev. Mulley said,

    18/01/2009 at 12:31 pm

    I have not had time to go through the full complement of your calendar preparation. However, I wish to point out that the correct name for ‘Goodalu’ is ‘Koodalu’. Whether ‘Koodalu’ itself should have a retroflexed ‘d’ or not is a matter of speculation. And of course, the calendar requires a more careful computation taking into view, when exactly is the beginning of a Badaga month. It is certainly not the 10th of a Gregorian month. Badaga month is basically lunar and hence cannot be superimposed on the present calendars which we know of. Best wishes.

    JP adds: Thank you Rev.Mulley. I have been using ‘KOODALU’ more than ‘GOODALU’ in my latest reference to Badaga Calendars. Please see the Jan 2009 Calendar post /page http://badaga-calendar.blogspot.com. As far as the exact date of commencement of Badaga Calendar [year starting on the 10th of Jan], it was based on the imput in the magazine ‘Nakku Betta’ many years ago [see my posts]. The date of Hethay Habba is fixed based on the lunar calculations but unfortunately, the many elder Badagas including persons from Baraganni and Pedduva could not give me an accurate and exact method of calculations. Basically, the idea of my page /posts on Badaga Calendar is to make it known that there are twelve Badaga months and their names. I am aware that Rev.Mulley is one of the ‘informed elders’ of the community and can offer a lot in educating us. I will be grateful for his guidance and more information on this score..

  26. mlle_sumathi said,

    20/01/2009 at 9:07 pm

    It is really nice that this website is becoming a good platform to discuss issues related to our community. It is also keeping us updated on whose who among badagas & the new achievers.

    JP adds : mlle_sumathi, thank you very much. You have been one of the great inspirations for this website. The books on Badaga you have sent me, have helped a great deal.

  27. Dharmaraj said,

    23/06/2009 at 3:59 am

    Hi, Its is very interesting to see our culture and traditional things over the web, many news of our fore fathers and interesting photos of traditional photo, village, people it woo oh, it is very extreme My great wishes for the person who created worked for this website, i live in abroad but after many months i got an opportunity from your website to hear some good songs, i was hearing these songs from my office i remembered all our festivals i just blinked my tears from my eyes
    !!!!!!

    A small request can you add some more songs and if you can add some videos of some festivals of some villages so that the badugas who live abroad can enjoy the festivals through your website,

    Best regards to you and for your web, be cool

  28. Meghaa Muraleedharan said,

    26/06/2009 at 4:10 am

    I am a person who loves our community n was fearing that we might lose our holds cause we r having a script less language n that since many of us are spread all over d world……..in fact, didn’t have knowledge of our origin n customs 2 this extent n i am really proud of your one man army.Hats off n expectin more from u sir………Wish i have a Badaga Calender @ home asap…..gr8 job

  29. Kannan (mallikorai village) said,

    07/07/2009 at 7:08 pm

    This web site it is excellent and super.

  30. bala said,

    07/08/2009 at 2:04 am

    The website is very good. It looks better then the badaga.org. Keep up the good work. It doesn’t look like one man effort. Hats off to all the person who worked towards this site.

    JP adds : Bala, yoy say that ‘it does not look like one man effort. I take it as a compliment. Better still, why don’t you join me, we will make it a ‘two men’ effort ?

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