![]() The popular myth associated with Onam has its diverse socio-cultural variations, analysis and understanding. The most significant fact of this festival is that it is celebrated in commemoration of a glorious past when there prevailed an ideal state of prosperity and peace. ![]() Government and non-government organizations take this as an opportunity to foster communal harmony, peace and ecological sensitivity among the people. Although the myth behind the festival originates from the Hindu tradition, it is celebrated as a secular event by people of all religious beliefs. Like all other traditional festivals, the promotion of goodwill and social cohesion is the aim of celebrating Onam. It was traditionally celebrated as the harvest festival that comes in the month of Chingam of the Malayalam era (late August or early September) just at the closing of the monsoon season. Onam is the national festival of the Malayalee people living in the State of Kerala in South India.
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