Alpha Arts and Science College, Porur celebrated Onam festival on Aug.24 in its premises. The Onam celebration was organised by the college\u2019s cultural committee, left an unforgettable mark in the mind\u00a0of the students and faculty\u00a0alike. The bedecked campus was festive with floral\u00a0pookalams and traditional decorations that transported everyone into a festive spirit. The highlight of the celebration was the grand procession led by students adorned in traditional Kerala attire to welcome\u00a0 King Mahabali back to his kingdom. Dressed in exquisite Kerala kasavu sarees and mundu, they displayed the beauty of Kerala\u2019s heritage.
The Principal, Dr. A. Sivashankar addressed the gathering with the festive spirit and fervour narrating the importance of harvest festivals like Onam. Later, students actively participated in various cultural activities, including the famous vadam Vali or Tug of War and Athapookalam or flower rangoli\u00a0 contest.
The Atha Pookkalam\u00a0competition allowed students to display their artistic creativity. The culturals included two group dances which showcased the Thiruvathirakali dance forms which were performed in tune with popular Onam songs. The group songs by students and faculty members with foot tapping numbers from trending Onam playlists, made the performances a roaring success.\u00a0The formal celebration ended with a vote of thanks by the Student Cultural coordinator. Adding to the colours there were traditional onam games for both boys and girls tug of war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Alpha Arts and Science College, Porur celebrated Onam festival on Aug.24 in its premises. The Onam celebration was organised by the college\u2019s cultural committee, left an unforgettable mark in the mind\u00a0of the students and faculty\u00a0alike. The bedecked campus was festive with floral\u00a0pookalams and traditional decorations that transported everyone into a festive spirit. The highlight of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1584,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions\/1584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}