UAE residents celebrate Onam 2020 with festive spirit

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Indian expatriates from the south Indian state of Kerala are celebrating their harvest festival, Onam, with full festive fervour all over the UAE.  Read the full story: https://bit.ly/3jn4dLk  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  #Onam #Kerala #India

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00:00Hello everyone! Happy Onam! Well, Onam is a South Indian festival celebrated by Malayalis in the

00:08Indian state of Kerala. Onam is basically a harvest festival and it is celebrated with a lot of pomp

00:16and fervor. This year it is the same albeit a pandemic situation. People in the UAE are making

00:23their best of the Onam celebrations. A lot of them are celebrating it at home with family.

00:30Some of them have also booked restaurants well in advance so they can go and partake in the

00:37traditional Onam Sadhya. So what is Onam Sadhya? Onam Sadhya is a special food that is prepared

00:44for Onam. It has about nine and in some cases it can go up to 14 dishes which includes a lot

00:53of curries, dal as well as some nice rice pudding. Remember Onam is all about celebrating

01:03the harvest festival so rice is a key dish in the Onam Sadhya. So rice puddings are really popular

01:13as well as boiled rice you know mixed with curries and dal are also a popular thing to partake

01:21during Onam. Another thing that marks the celebration of Onam is the festivals and

01:26performances. You have something called a snake boat performance that is really popular as well

01:33as a lot of dancers you will find on the streets of Kerala to mark Onam celebrations. But in all

01:42Onam basically is a celebration of unity and when we say unity this means that it basically brings

01:50people together irrespective of their caste or religion. So in Kerala typically you will find

01:58people of different religions, different castes all sitting together as friends as one unit

02:06and celebrating Onam which makes this truly secular and so beautiful as a celebration.

02:14This is Anjana Kumar for Gulf News. Wishing all the Malayalees around the world a happy

02:20prosperous and a safe Onam. Stay safe. Wishing you and your family a very happy Onam. This

02:26corona situation going on this situation also we are still celebrating our Onam.

02:31Once again I am wishing happy Onam to all.

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