Telugu woman mark Atla Tadde by keeping a day-long fast without food or water. In the evening women perform pooja, and after looking at the moon, they break the fast by having tiny atlu (miniature dosas). Following are customs in some places of Andhra Pradesh, India: Pooja ceremony: * Prepare kalisam on rice,coins(inside kalasam water+kumkum+turmeric+coin+flower with 5 mango leaf's or just water) * Make pasupu ganapathi * Gauri ashtotram * Lalitha harathi/gauri harathi * Story People sing folk songs like atla taddi aaratloi, mudda pappu mudatloi,....