Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday inaugurated the week-long Onam celebrations in Thiruvananthapuram, setting the stage for presenting before a wider audience a variety of classical, folk, ethnic and popular art forms in multiple venues in the state capital and districts across the state in the next seven days. Opening the state-wide celebrations organised by the Kerala Tourism Department at a grand function at Nishagandhi, Kanakakkunnu Palace grounds here, he described Onam as an enduring symbol of hope, resilience and resurgence which has an added significance this time as humanity is recovering from the disruptions caused by the Covid-19. “Onam this time comes with promise and hope. In the last two years, humanity had passed through an unprecedented situation t...
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Kerala Tourism and Harper Collins jointly launch Anjana Menon’s bestseller ‘Onam in a Nightie’ Foraying into the world of letters, Kerala Tourism has joined hands with a top Indian publisher to unveil a bestseller that celebrates the hope, resilience, and intrinsic humaneness of Malayalis during the pandemic and depicts the ordinary in an extraordinary and authentic manner. The book, Onam in a Nightie: Stories from a Kerala Quarantine, written by noted journalist-author Anjana Menon and published by Harper Collins India, was unveiled at a function at Oberoi Hotel here last night, attended by an impressive gathering of glitterati and literati. Dr Shashi Tharoor, the MP from Thiruvananthapuram, and Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog, unveiled the 230-page book that revolv...
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