Onam 2020

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The 2020 Onam celebration was a first of its kind in the history of Government College of Teacher Education, Thycaud. With the COVID pandemic outbreak, the college union had to come up with a novel method for celebrating the festival. SARGAM organized a virtual celebration named e-onam on August 27, 2020.

Even though the usual festivities of creating a pookalam, swinging on an oonjal, or even the joy of eating a sadhya together were missing, a new synergy was built by the active participation of all the assembled in the various activities that were conducted live and pre-meet.

The various competitions held as part of the celebrations were:

 

·        A Painting Competition themed “ormayile onam”

·        Malayali manka and Purusha Kesari

·        Fancy Dress themed ‘recreate a famous character’

·        Kadankatha competition ‘Uttaram Parayamo’

·        Story telling competition ‘Njan oru katha parayam’







Despite the slight technical difficulties faced as well as the inexperience’s in organizing a virtual celebration, the event progressed in a timely manner with positive feedbacks from the assembled. It was an event to remember. Even though everyone missed the usual colourful celebrations and the experience of enjoying together, the virtual celebration was able to bridge at least a part of the missing. Indeed, the spirit of Onam guided the event and fulfilled our desire and gave hope for a better future.


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