‘Atla Taddi’ is the widely celebrated festival of which Indian state?

Correct — D. Atla Taddi is a women's festival of the Telugu country, kept in Andhra Pradesh and in Telangana, on which women fast through the day and offer atlu — rice pancakes — from which the festival takes its name.

Taddi is tadiya, the third lunar day: the festival falls on the third day of the dark fortnight of Ashwayuja, just after the autumn full moon.

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  West Bengal — Atla Taddi is a Telugu observance, not a Bengali one. Bengal's autumn calendar runs on Durga Puja and Lakshmi Puja and carries no festival of this name.
• (b)
  Bihar — Bihar's great women's fast of this season is Chhath, kept for the Sun. Atla Taddi is unrelated to it and is not observed as a Bihari festival.
• (c)
  Punjab — Punjab's calendar runs on Lohri, Baisakhi and Karva Chauth. No Punjabi festival is called Atla Taddi — the name itself is Telugu.

Regional festivals are tested as a name-to-state mapping, and the name is usually the evidence you are given.

Atla is the Telugu atlu, the rice pancakes offered and eaten. Taddi is tadiya, the third lunar day. Both words place the festival in the Telugu region before you recall anything else about it.

The observance itself is a women's vrata — a fast kept through the day, henna on the hands, swings, and a meal taken before first light.

Key facts

• Atla Taddi is celebrated by women in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
• It falls in the month of Ashwayuja, on the third day of the dark fortnight, just after the autumn full moon.
• The name joins atlu, the rice pancakes offered, to tadiya, meaning the third lunar day.

Common traps

• Guessing an eastern or northern state because the transliteration looks unfamiliar
• Separating Andhra Pradesh from Telangana when the festival is kept in both

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