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What the hell is Aadi Masam?                           When I go back to my Childhood I always associate Aadi month with kite flying and L.R. Eswari songs …, Mari amma, yengal Mari amma (a great track with powerful voice) During those days it was exciting to come back to home from the school for one reason and that was my thread and the kite. In weekends nearby temples used to play song in those cone speakers, though it was noisy, but we did have a festival mood. Years passed by those speakers were looking like cacophony machines and those Aadi rituals, were looking senseless.  Slowly I was critical about all these practices and started questioning it and finally I was branded as Anti-religion and I started my journey into being a critical thinker. Once I was critically evaluating Aadi month and its rituals which slowly made me explore what is this all about. The first thing that I understood about Aadi was newly married couple are not supposed to be t