Festivals in Kerala -
the reverberation of an amazingly beautiful, rich and deep-rooted culture.

Keralas culture is unique and attracts people from near and far. But to get advance information about cultural events and festivals in Kerala is very difficult.

The engagements of the day may be given in the local and regional newspapers; the event calendar of the official website of Kerala tourism --after it’s initial enthusiasm -- fell back to a rather selective compilation of advance information.

Unless you are not a member of a variety of cultural clubs or cultural trusts that may reflect not only the richness and diversity of Kerala culture but the ‘ego’ of the organizers as well, you will be at loss to plan a visit in advance.

The just and for the first time published Kerala Festival Directory, edited and compiled by V.A. Menon is therefore a laudable initiative that hopefully will develop into a reliable and exhaustive source of information about Keralas amazing beautiful, rich and deep-rooted culture.

For the time being this directory of monthly events, listed district wise and by date and compiled mainly from the above mentioned source, makes the information available on the Internet. It is still quite selective; a variety of festivals in the art field like 'carnatic music festivals', all kind of performing art festivals not connected with temple, church or mosque festivals and so on may have to be added.

We hope that this calendar of events serves the purpose as long as those authorities that should be concerned cannot provide a more exhaustive and reliable source of information.