Aati is a special month where our culture takes shape of a festival before the series of official festival arrives after Nagapanchami. Aati is a one month period where the people do not take up any good things like construction of house, performing marriages or Brahmopadesha, or even buy new vehicles and make financial investments. In a way it is the our version of dark days.

Aati da Onji is a time to hibernate or in a more modern parlance remembering the Aati days of the bygone era . It was exactly the same that happened today. Devadigas along with their friends and relatives from all over Bangalore region got together in Vasavi Kalyan Mantap Rajarajeswarinagar in bangalore to celebrate the festival of Food and Culture