Girls dressed in traditional white saris and boys in ‘Mundu’ bid ‘Onam Ashamsakal’ (Onam greetings) to one another as celebrations for the auspicious Malayali festival began at the National Sanskrit University (NSU), the erstwhile Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha campus, in Tirupati on Monday.
The university is known for its vibrant cultural diversity, with students from all the southern States as well as from Odisha, Maharashtra and north India studying here. As such, major festivals of all the States are celebrated on a grand note by all the students.
The campus was tastefully decorated with flowers of all hues for Onam. At the academic building’s central lobby, the students arranged a massive floral decoration called ‘Pookkaalam’ and performed the typical Onam dance and other cultural forms representing Kerala, marked by enchantment as well as elegance.
