Peerla Panduga
Peerla Panduga is a mourning festival celebrated by Muslims in Telangana and in the Rayala Seema region of Andhra Pradesh to remember the Battle of Karbala. It is mourned across the Sufi shrines called Ashurkhana. A procession of the relic, called Alam is taken out as part of Muharram. There may be multiple relics donated by various members of the procession. Some villages in Telangana have relics that have been donated through generation by the members of the same family.
Traditionally for many centuries, the Sunni Islamic scholars who are called "Islamic peers" would encourage their followers to organise programmes in remembrance of the martyrdom of Imam Hussain and his family members and friends and offer Salah and recite Quran and Hadith of the prophet Muhammad about the Ahl al-Bayt and mourn in silence and shed tears by remembering them the day in which Yazeed ibn Muawiya happened to kill Imam Hussain.
On this day, the Shia.
The Peerla Pandaga is seen as a festival of religious harmony since many Hindu majority villages celebrate the festival, without being bothered about the reasons behind it. Many Hindu temples, like the Gugudu Kullayaswami temple in Anantapur district, are famous for celebrating the festival grandly.