| Vishu in Kerala marks a harvest and New Year festival. Keralites welcome this festival with all the pomp and gandeur starting from wearing new clothes [kodi vastram], tokens of money or vishukaineetam to children and tenants, servants etc., lights of firecrackers, preparing ‘sadya’ or feasts, ‘vishuwela’ or fair and last but not least, offering Vishukanis at famous temples. Temples in Kerala like Sabarimala, Guruvayur, Padmanaba Shetram are filled with the prayers hymning by devotees. These temples prepare Vishukanis that numerous people crowd the next morning for the ‘lucky sight’. |
