Old onam malayalam songs3/31/2024 ![]() ![]() It would seem they stuck to the folklore that came with Mahabali – when the king had ruled, all people lived as one. In the evening, they’d all take baths and wear new clothes made of the same material for everyone in the house, including the members of the family and the domestic workers. ![]() There’d be all the cousins and aunts and uncles, about 20 people living in the house with a huge compound. The second Onam day, Thiruvonam, is the main one, when the mythical king of Kerala, Mahabali, is believed to visit and watch over the people of a land he had once ruled.īindu’s story begins in the 1960s and we shall go over the decades with her and others, on how the celebrations for Onam have changed but the festive spirit has persisted through all of it.īindu, a writer based in Thiruvananthapuram, was then a child visiting the mother’s village for Onam. That was the first Onam day – there are four, starting from Uthradom. By the time Bindu and her family reached their ancestral home in Kadakkavoor, a village north of Thiruvananthapuram, the swings would be ready, tightly tied between coconut trees. ![]()
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