Today malayalese across the continent are celebratin ONAM...........traditional festival of kerala celebrated in honour of MAVELI the demon king who ruled kerala long ago.............as the story goes............he was a noble king..........gods in heaven got scared of the fact that he was powerful and plotted ways to bring him down.................lord MAHAVISHNU disguised as vamana -the bhramin boy reached the king and asked for 3 foot land..........maveli without knowin the trap agreed.............vamana covered earth n the entire universe in his first two steps................maveli offered his head for keepin vamana's third foot land................n thus he was banished to the underworld..................vamana agreed to maveli's plea that he may be allowed to visit his kingdom once in a year.................n thus we malayalese celebrate ONAm..............usually onam is celebrated for 10 days.....the most important being THIRUVONAM.............it is a time for families to spent time together............to pluck flowers to adorn pookalam .............n also the ladies in the family dance to the tune of thiruvathira.................after which the entire family sits in for the tasty sadhya...................ONAM in every true sense is the traditional festival of kerala..............
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