Malayalees celebrate Onam today. Onam is described as a harvest festival and people of all faith partake in it. Onam is actually much more than a harvest festival, it is a festival to reminisce the good times under a just ruler(MahaBali) and an utopia that was ours, it is a celebration of 'the return of the king' and is probably the only festival in India that glorifies a 'demon' king. That is the kind of stuff that sets malayaless apart from the rest of India. Every other Indian festival known to me is a celebration of a God's birthday or of a demon being slain by one of our god(esse)s!
This folk song says it all:
When Maveli ruled the land
Everyone was equal
Happily they lived
Danger befell none
There was no falsehood, or fraud
And no untruth
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happy onam my malayai friend....stay simble and humble...
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