Malayalam alphabet souvenirs | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT Boat races of Kerala, known as vallamkali is a thrilling experience for both rowers and spectators. Mainly conducted during Onam, the harvest festival in September, these races featuring the chundan vallams or snake boats are iconic. As the oarsmen dressed in white mundu and turban sing aloud the vanchipaattu (boat song), the snake boats move in pairs to the rhythm of their full-throated […]
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Organic cotton dhoties | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement From a 21-dish onasadya with avial(vegetables made with coconut and milk), olan (ash gourd with beans in a thick coconut milk gravy), kichadi (gourd in yoghurt curry), pachadi (pineapple or bitter gourd in yoghurt) and five varieties of lip smacking payasams to Onam combo pack of delicious […]
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Image of Mahabali, visualised by designer Sabari Venu, in 2023 | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT This time round, designer Sabari Venu has imagined a fiesty Mahabali coming to Kerala on a Great Pied Hornbill. Hair flying in the air, the mundu-clad, bearded Mahabali is clearly enjoying his ride in Sabari’s illustration, which has been shared […]
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Onasadya | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Thiruvananthapuram Atelier, Marappalam Vegetarian sadya is priced ₹649 and non-vegetarian at ₹799. Contact: 9961533339, 9387087066 Hilton Garden Inn, Statue ₹1,199 plus taxes per person. Contact: 8111886843 Hotel Horizon, Thampanoor ₹500 per head. Contact: 8281182811 Hyatt Regency, Thycaud ₹1,800 plus taxes. Contact: 6238600446 Hycinth, Thampanoor ₹1,099 plus taxes. Contact: 9400000773 […]
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From Seamstress’ kitsch collection that is a bright dash of colour | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The default Onam palette is white and gold, with the odd dash of colour either woven in, printed or added as surface embellishment. A few Kerala-based designers have added a dash of whimsy to their collections this Onam, marrying […]
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Vallachira Panchayath Onagosham The Onam celebrations of Vallachira—‘Vallachira Panchayath Onagosham’— is set to go global. A Responsible Tourism Company, The Blue Yonder, along with Kerala Tourism is pivoting the festivities of the village, 15 kms from Thrissur, as a showcase for travellers. A pre Onam festival held in July 2023, had 25 vloggers and industry stakeholders […]
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The traditional Onam sadya comprises 21 dishes If you are dreaming of a home-cooked sadya this Onam, sans the kitchen frenzy, here are three home cooks waiting to serve you. Be it a mini-sadya or an elaborate one with non-vegetarian additions, there is a lot to choose from. A mini sadya @ Purple Plate Catering […]
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The traditional Onam sadya comprises 21 dishes | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto If you are dreaming of a home-cooked sadya this Onam, sans the kitchen frenzy, here are three home cooks waiting to serve you. Be it a mini-sadya or an elaborate one with non-vegetarian additions, there is a lot to choose from. A mini […]
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A screenshot of the Onam ad | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement It is the reign of Onam commercials till the mythological exiled King Mahabali, whose annual visit to Kerala is celebrated as Onam, departs. Of the lot Onasadyakku ready aano? (Are you ready for Onasadya), a campaign by food delivery platform, Swiggy, has gone viral, […]
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Nothing prepares me for the cheery sight that awaits me in one part of Varapuzha. It is just after 9.30am on a muggy day; I hear the murmur of women before I see them. Lakshmi Murali emerges from behind a gap in a compound wall and calls me over. All I see is a plot […]
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