Onam

Long time ago, a demon named Mahabali ruled Kerala. He became very popular with his subjects. But the gods soon felt threatened as the king could soon start ruling over them with his power so they pleaded to Vishnu. Vishnu in turn disguised as a small brahmin called Vamana and came to the King for alms. Mahabali gave him 3 wishes and suddenly Vamana grew real huge. He kept his one leg to cover the skies, second step on the underworld and went on to put his third step when the King thought that he might now finish the earth hence offered his head on which Vishnu can keep his foot, as now it was obvious to him that Vamana was no ordinary person ! But before that he asked Vishnu to grant him that he be allowed to return to his soil once in a year and everyone around would celebrate that day and this day is how ONAM came into existence !

I had almost forgotten the background of this story..but lakshmi helped me revive it.
Well, in bay area we celebrated it by going to a Mallu function organised by the Bay area mallu gang ! :) Sorry to put it that way..but thats just me..

We went with couple of our closest friends anoop and lakshmi. To add to it the kerala flavour..I wore the traditional attire called as "Vesti Mundu" I hope thats what lakshmi told me..hehe.

Check it out in the snap..