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UAE residents celebrate Onam 2020 with festive spirit
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2/15/2025
Indian expatriates from the south Indian state of Kerala are celebrating their harvest festival, Onam, with full festive fervour all over the UAE.
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Hello everyone! Happy Onam! Well, Onam is a South Indian festival celebrated by Malayalis in the
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Indian state of Kerala. Onam is basically a harvest festival and it is celebrated with a lot of pomp
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and fervor. This year it is the same albeit a pandemic situation. People in the UAE are making
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their best of the Onam celebrations. A lot of them are celebrating it at home with family.
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Some of them have also booked restaurants well in advance so they can go and partake in the
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traditional Onam Sadhya. So what is Onam Sadhya? Onam Sadhya is a special food that is prepared
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for Onam. It has about nine and in some cases it can go up to 14 dishes which includes a lot
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of curries, dal as well as some nice rice pudding. Remember Onam is all about celebrating
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the harvest festival so rice is a key dish in the Onam Sadhya. So rice puddings are really popular
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as well as boiled rice you know mixed with curries and dal are also a popular thing to partake
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during Onam. Another thing that marks the celebration of Onam is the festivals and
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performances. You have something called a snake boat performance that is really popular as well
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as a lot of dancers you will find on the streets of Kerala to mark Onam celebrations. But in all
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Onam basically is a celebration of unity and when we say unity this means that it basically brings
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people together irrespective of their caste or religion. So in Kerala typically you will find
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people of different religions, different castes all sitting together as friends as one unit
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and celebrating Onam which makes this truly secular and so beautiful as a celebration.
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This is Anjana Kumar for Gulf News. Wishing all the Malayalees around the world a happy
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prosperous and a safe Onam. Stay safe. Wishing you and your family a very happy Onam. This
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corona situation going on this situation also we are still celebrating our Onam.
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Once again I am wishing happy Onam to all.
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