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Another #Onam is here, and like every year, so is a fresh round of heated debate about what the festival represents. For the benefit of the larger audience, let's unpack the mythology of this harvest festival of Kerala.
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Another #Onam is here, and like every year, so is a fresh round of heated debate about what the festival represents. For the benefit of the larger audience, let's unpack the mythology of this harvest festival of Kerala.
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Unlike most other festivals in India, Onam is not about the victory of "good over evil". It is a celebration of an Asura King by the name of Mahabali, or Maveli as Keralites endearingly call him, who was banished to Patala by Lord Vishnu, coming back home to visit his people.
The story goes like this: Maveli was an ideal ruler whose time was marked with prosperity, justice & fraternity among the masses. The Devas who were jealous of Maveli's popularity complained to Lord Vishnu, who took the form of a Brahmin dwarf named Vamana to defeat King Maveli.
This is just plain stupid.
Vamana is part of the story and he has a birthday. Nobody needs these silly "proofs" for that. The resistance is against hijacking the popular narrative where King Maveli is celebrated and presenting an alternate one where Vamana is.
#MaveliNotVamana
Vamana is part of the story and he has a birthday. Nobody needs these silly "proofs" for that. The resistance is against hijacking the popular narrative where King Maveli is celebrated and presenting an alternate one where Vamana is.
#MaveliNotVamana
The Onam vs Vamana Jayanti debate is about the perspective from which the story is told and which icon is being celebrated. Keralites who celebrate King Maveli and his homecoming will resist attempts to brahmanise Onam by moving the focus on to Vamana.
#MaveliNotVamana
#MaveliNotVamana
Understanding the #MaveliNotVamana debate.
"The invitation from the people to Maveli was a politically and ideologically loaded statement, a creative response to an unpardonable act of injustice done to a just ruler."
thehindu.com/books/welcome-…
"The invitation from the people to Maveli was a politically and ideologically loaded statement, a creative response to an unpardonable act of injustice done to a just ruler."
thehindu.com/books/welcome-…
