Onam brings in festivities with colourful Pookkalams and boat races
Legends always carry unrecorded histories and contexts by which society has transformed and evolved. What multiple aspects of the legend behind Onam have got to do with Kerala, today/yesterday? There have been well organized Onam celebrations by the- It is a day of celebration for the diaspora. Boat races are uniquely reminiscent of Onam. Though boat races are common throughout Kerala, Champakkulam, Kuttanadan (Nehru trophy) and the Aranmula races are the most spectacular and traditional, rooted
- Not the garden flowers but flowers found in villages, on riverbanks, near water bodies, shrines, mini forests and groves would be collected, especially by children, who pick the biodiversity in the process. These approaches underwent radical changes
- Historians associate the word 'Ponnin Chingamasam ' (golden month of Chingam) as a popular recognition of ships reaching Kerala coast. There are multiple factors like trade, harvest, climate and leisure; the floral display has been done both at the
- Onam refers to the season of flowers past the monsoon. As monsoons were heavy and disastrous, social transactions and economic activities were reserved for the spell after the rains. Even in those days, trade was centered around gold, which came
- Among the most traditional practices of Onam still extant is Pookkalam (flowers laid on earth like the rangoli of the north) done for 10 days from the start of the festival. Though all forms and practices have undergone drastic changes, this has
- It is about the economics of a state that produces little but distributes and disburses money through various activities around festivals. But the nostalgic Onam still maintains certain unparalleled contributions to human creativity and existence.
- On the other side is the domestic dimension of Onam, manifested in people joining their families at least a day, donning new clothes and savouring a community meal. The most dominant force at work during Onam is the market force.
Legends always carry unrecorded histories and contexts by which society has transformed and evolved. What multiple aspects of the legend behind Onam have got to do with Kerala, today/yesterday? There have been well organized Onam celebrations by the
Onam brings in festivities with colourful Pookkalams and boat races
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