Gussadi Dance Of Telangana

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.