{"id":13855,"date":"2013-09-20T15:22:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T09:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=13855"},"modified":"2013-09-20T22:49:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T17:19:28","slug":"week-long-onam-celebartion-ends-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/week-long-onam-celebartion-ends-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Week-long Onam Celebartion ends today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala Tourism\u2019s State-level Onam celebrations will <strong>come to an end today with the colourful Onam pageantry from Kowdiar to East Fort. <\/strong>Governor <strong>Nikhil Kumar will be the chief guest<\/strong> and he will flag off the procession from Kowdiar at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Preparations for this year\u2019s Onam pageantry are in the final stages and this year\u2019s processions would be focused on the traditional art forms of Kerala. The number of artistes and floats taking part in the pageantry would also see an increase compared to the previous years.<\/p>\n<p>Around <strong>3,000 participants<\/strong> will exhibit their prowess in various art forms at the pageantry. There are 75 floats and performances of 68 different art forms. The pageantry would be led by an \u2018<strong>Onappottan<\/strong>\u2019, a representation of King Mahabali which is popular in the Malabar region. There will be performances of various art forms like Vattamudi Theyyam, Kali-Darikan and Poothan Thira. A 25-member fusion drum team was another addition.<\/p>\n<p>Art forms from other States such as Gujarati dance, Yakshagana, Manipuri dance, and Bhangra dance are also included in the pageantry. The various colourful floats will display Kerala\u2019s achievements in various fields. State government institutions, Central government institutions, cooperatives, banks, local self government institutions, and private institutions would take out floats for the procession. The first and second prize winners in each item would be given attractive gifts.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic restrictions will be imposed in the city from <strong>1 p.m<\/strong>. once the floats move to the starting point at Vellayambalam. The restrictions will be in place till the pageantry ends. The city police will deploy hundreds of policemen to control people who come to view the pageantry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala Tourism\u2019s State-level Onam celebrations will come to an end today with the colourful Onam pageantry from Kowdiar to East Fort. Governor Nikhil Kumar will be the chief guest and he will flag off the procession from Kowdiar at 5 p.m. Preparations for this year\u2019s Onam pageantry are in the final stages and this year\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-13855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}