The main Onam festival will be celebrated over three days from August 21-23. Onam celebrates the homecoming of the legendary King Mahabali. While it is held over 10 days, the main festival will be ...

When Lord Mahavishnu took the Vamana avatara and asked Mahabali for land as daana, Mahabali’s guru Sukracharya saw through the Lord’s disguise. The Lord wanted land to be measured with three ...

As Kerala is getting ready to celebrate Onam — the national festival of the State — the legend of Mahabali based on whom the festival is centred has collapsed like a pack of cards thanks to ...

An attractive strapping young man offers his head to Lord Vishnu. In this print, titled Vamana, King Mahabali is unrecognisable to today’s audience, used to the familiar rotund, moustachioed ...

Mahabali is an inevitable part of the Onam celebrations and so is Jijimon. Onam celebrations in the city would have been incomplete without Jijimon, an auto driver fromKallara in Kottayam district ...

Mahabali and Vaman’s story in Vishnu Purana makes one understand the Hindu notions of charity and donation. Once upon a time, there was an asura called Bali, also known as Mahabali, who ...

The myth related to the harvest festival of Onam is centred around asura king Mahabali. When devas in heaven became insecure seeing his popularity, they requested Vishnu to destroy him.

According to legend, the festival is dedicated to King Mahabali, whose spirit is said to visit Kerala at the time of Onam. Onam is a harvest festival and is celebrated with bliss and eagerness by ...