This PONNONAM day is to celebrate abundance, prosperity, truthfulness and is devoid of greed, selfishness and conceit.
It is associated with cheerful harvest season, proclaiming the saga of a rich farming tradition of our mother land.
Devoid of caste-creed considerations, irrespective of age, from huts to palaces everyone celebrate this season.
Yesterday. Uthrdadam was a busy paachil for the preparation for today and today is the day for cherishing special delicacies from the kitchen of own house.
However for many gulf Malayalies like me it is a day for sweet fantasies too. After queuing up in-front of hotels to collect the previously booked ready-to-eat take-away packets, rush to home to eat the food on torn and shabby banana leaves that imported from India or Thailand.
It is not the pleasing sunlight with dragon flies and thumba flowers around, but with unbearable hot and humid summer season that further restricted with the strictness of the Ramadan fasting and usual tight work schedules.
With a new optimism we too join the rest of the world on this auspicious occasion of happiness and prosperity.
HAPPY PONNONAM..!!!
Jose G Kollamparampil
Doha Qatar