A three-day Kerala festival by Kerala Tourism will be held in Bhopal. It is scheduled to start on November 13 and will conclude on November 15. The event would be held at Bhopal Haat. Home Minister of Madhya Pradesh Babulal Gaur will inaugurate the event at 7 pm on Friday.
The event is organised on the occasion of 60th year of Kerala’s formation and is held at nine places in India during the month of November. State of Kerala was formed on 1st November, 1956 along with Madhya Pradesh. The event is organised in association with Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi (Madhya Pradesh Chapter).
The three-day tourism festival will highlight Kerala Ayurveda medicines and therapies, Handloom, Handicraft and also focus will be given to the Kerala cuisines. Typical food items like Kerala Porotta, tapioca items, variety of vegetarian and non-vegetarian food items will be available. Different types of bananas from Kerala will be available for sale.
G Tulsidharan, President, KSNA; OD Joseph, Secretary, KSNA; C Ashokan, Coordinator, KSNA and MK Mathew was also present on the occasion.
There will be cultural programmes on every day starting with Padayani, a traditional folk presentation on Friday. Street magic, Kathaprasangam, poetry, folk songs, Theyyam, different forms of classical and folk dances, songs will be performed. Apart from the ethnic art forms by the artistes from Kerala, presentation by the artistes of Bhopal will be staged on all three days.