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Doha
THE Keralite community in Qatar celebrated their popular festival Onam on Wednesday with traditional fervour.
Groups of the community held an array of cultural activities to celebrate the festival in different parts of the country.
One such group celebrated the festival with their families at a Shehania farm house owned by Salah Abdulla Sulaiti. The function was sponsored by Qatar Securities Guard Service Company.
A group of girls dressed in traditional attires performed popular dance for the occasion Onam Kaikotty Kali.
It was followed by a number of programmes including among others the traditional Onam Sandhya.
Onam is celebrated each year in the month of August-September, which, according to the Malayalam calendar is the first month of the year called Chingam.
Onam is celebrated in memory of King Mahabali, who once ruled the state and in whose regime, it is said, Kerala witnessed its best time.
Doha
THE Keralite community in Qatar celebrated their popular festival Onam on Wednesday with traditional fervour.
Groups of the community held an array of cultural activities to celebrate the festival in different parts of the country.
One such group celebrated the festival with their families at a Shehania farm house owned by Salah Abdulla Sulaiti. The function was sponsored by Qatar Securities Guard Service Company.
A group of girls dressed in traditional attires performed popular dance for the occasion Onam Kaikotty Kali.
It was followed by a number of programmes including among others the traditional Onam Sandhya.
Onam is celebrated each year in the month of August-September, which, according to the Malayalam calendar is the first month of the year called Chingam.
Onam is celebrated in memory of King Mahabali, who once ruled the state and in whose regime, it is said, Kerala witnessed its best time.
