{"id":5872,"date":"2012-12-13T13:25:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T07:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=5872"},"modified":"2012-12-13T13:26:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T07:56:20","slug":"gksf-with-theme-expo-to-highlight-states-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/gksf-with-theme-expo-to-highlight-states-power\/","title":{"rendered":"GKSF with theme expo to highlight state&#8217;s power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ananthapuri is in a festive mood with book festival, film festival and the upcoming <a title=\"GKSF 2012 in Techy Attire\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/gksf-2012-in-techy-attire\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Kerala Shopping Festival<\/a> (GKSF). The 48-day shopping fiesta will begin state wide on 15 December and in this thematic exhibitions are also included to highlight Kerala&#8217;s strengths.<\/p>\n<p>The thematic exhibition will have spices, tea, handlooms, ayurveda and many more tradition products of Kerala to show the tradition power the state possess. The thematic exhibition in the GKSF will be a slice of <a title=\"Is Kerala a miserable land for common man?\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/is-kerala-a-miserable-land-for-common-man\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kerala<\/a> which will showcase the state&#8217;s pride. As the expo is during the tourism time, it will surely attract the tourists and shoppers from outside the state.<\/p>\n<p>There will be six exhibitions based on themes which are planned in various cities to reflect the character of that place. The Spice exhibition will be at Kottayam from December 14-26, Kannur will be the venue for Handloom and Folklore from December 20-31 and the 12-day Mappila Fest will be at Kozhikode from December 29 onwards.<\/p>\n<p>Kottakal in Malappuram will host the Tribal arts and cultural fest during December 21-30. The other core theme of the expo will be Tea which will be hosted at Kalpetta in Wayanad district from December 28-January 6. The capital city will be host to contemporary art fair (January 3-26) and health and Ayurveda expo (January 9-23).<\/p>\n<p>The thematic exhibition is the first of its kind in GKSF and expects to raise the profile of the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ananthapuri is in a festive mood with book festival, film festival and the upcoming Grand Kerala Shopping Festival (GKSF). The 48-day shopping fiesta will begin state wide on 15 December and in this thematic exhibitions are also included to highlight Kerala&#8217;s strengths. The thematic exhibition will have spices, tea, handlooms, ayurveda and many more tradition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":5894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872"}],"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\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}