Kerala Tourism hosts Kerala festival 2015 at Bhopal Haat

Bhopal, November 12, 2015: A three days 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 is held at Bhopal Haat   Shri Babulal Gaur, Home Minister will inaugurate the event at 7 pm on 13th November.

The event  is organized on the occasion of 60th year of Kerala’s formation and is held at 9 places in India during the month of November.   State of Kerala was formed on 1st November 1956 along with Madhya Pradesh.  The event is organized in association with Kerala Sangeetha  Nataka Akademi  (M.P. Chapter).

The three- days 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.   

Mr. G Tulsidharan, President,KSNA , Mr. O D Joseph, Secretary, KSNA  , Mr. C Ashokan, Coordinator , KSNA and Mr. MK Mathew was also present on the occasion.

There will be cultural programs on every day  starting with Padayani, a traditional folk presentation  on 13th November.   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 artists from Kerala,   presentation by the artists of Bhopal will be staged on  all three days.