Onam is just around the corner and so is the season of floral carpets. Women, clad in traditional white silk saris with golden borders and fresh jasmine strings dangling along their long tresses, are busy embellishing their pookkalams in front of their courtyard.
The women use a mix of traditional flowers such as thumbapoo, jasmine and ixora, and flowers such as marigolds, roses and asters to create the beautiful patterns, usually circular in shape, with petals.
Pookkalam competitions are aplenty during the season and women and men participate to create magic with flowers. Watch finely crafted carpets of flowers unfold at Government College for Women this Saturday as part of The Hindu MetroPlus Pookkalam Contest. An annual event, the day is all about fun, flowers and Onam camaraderie.
