QBengaluru: Muted Onam Celebrations in City & More

Muted Onam Celebration for Keralites in Bengaluru

Keralites residing in the city, who were looking forward to exuberant Onam celebrations this year, have turned away from it, instead giving up the festivities and diverting funds and material to help their brethren back in their flood-ravaged home state of Kerala.

The Rs 20 lakh raised by members of the Bengaluru Malayali Forum (BMF) for a grand Onam celebration has now been re-channelised to fund and mobilise relief material that could be of help for those needing rehabilitation in their flooded areas in Kerala. The members had begun elaborate preparations eight months in advance for the grand celebrations for Onam (15 August to 27 August this year), which falls in the Malayalam calendar month of Chingam and is a rice harvest festival.