Onam emojis

Onam has a flower carpet spreading across the front step days before the actual feast — the bouquet and blossom here are standing in for that pookalam, petal by petal. The rowing boat is the other half of it, for the snake-boat races that turn the backwaters into a stadium. And curry-rice is quietly doing the heaviest lifting on this list, for a meal that runs to two dozen dishes on a single banana leaf.

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