Feasting on tradition

TRADITIONAL Malayalam plays, mime sketches and skits were served up at the Bahrain Keraleeya Samajam (BKS), Segaiya, last night.
Bahrain-based musicians also presented instrumental and semi-classical fusion music and dances during the event that forms part of the ongoing BKS Sravanam 2010 celebration being held to mark the Keralite Onam harvest festival.
Celebrations will continue from 8pm tonight with the staging of plays that highlight Onam's origin and significance.
The curtain will rise at 8pm and entry is free to all.
Meanwhile, a performance by an Indian musical reality show singers will lower the curtain on Sravanam celebration tomorrow night.
Idea Star Singer's vocalists Arun Gopan, Preethi Warrier, Anju Joseph and Sudhesh Kumar will perform with Bahrain-based Music City Orchestra.
It will take place from 7pm and entry is free to all. The BKS will also hold a Payasam traditional sweet dish contest at 4.30pm tomorrow as part of the celebrations.
"Our decision to open the Onam celebrations to the entire Malayalee community is one of the reasons for its huge success in terms of quality of the programme and attendance," said BKS acting president Abdul Rehman.
"It is our wish to present BKS as a representative of the Malayalee community in Bahrain and unless we allow the non-members to use our campus, we will not be successful in our goal."
A prize distribution ceremony for winners of Sravanam will follow immediately after the vocal performance tomorrow night.
"For the success of Sravanam, the BKS is indebted to the diligent efforts of the committee headed by Manoj Mathew and the Malayalee community in Bahrain," said BKS general secretary N K Veeramani.
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