{"id":807,"date":"2017-09-05T03:47:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T03:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/?p=807"},"modified":"2017-09-05T03:47:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T03:47:51","slug":"onam-celebration-in-g-d-goenka-international-school-rohtak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/onam-celebration-in-g-d-goenka-international-school-rohtak\/","title":{"rendered":"ONAM CELEBRATION IN G.D. GOENKA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ROHTAK\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Onam<\/strong> is an annual festival with origins in Kerala, heralding peace and prosperity. It falls in the Malayalam calendar month of <strong>CHINGAM<\/strong>. This festival commemorates King Mahabali, Vamana (Vishnu Avatar) related mythology of Hinduism.<\/p>\n<p>It is a major annual event for Malayalee people as a start of new year along with summer harvest and celebrated with POOKALAM (FLOWER ARRANGEMENT), VALLAM KALLI ( The annual Nehru Trophy Snake Boat Race) held in the backwaters of ALLAPUZHA, all dress up in traditional attire, women dance THIRUVATHIRA KALLI, and a very large variety of delicious cuisine is prepared etc.<\/p>\n<p>In our school, Grade 7<sup>th<\/sup>-B class teacher (who is also French language teacher)<strong> Sh. A. Venkat Krishnan<\/strong>, in the early morning of September 4, set up a small flower decoration in the corridor, a poster made of various colour art papers <strong>\u201cHAPPY ONAM\u201d<\/strong> placed with the decoration and lamps lit.<\/p>\n<p>All the children saw this and were imparted knowledge about <strong>ONAM<\/strong>. A special visit of group of children from Grade 1&amp;2 was made who learnt a lot and a Q &amp; A session was also held.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-09-04-at-2.47.53-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-808\" src=\"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-09-04-at-2.47.53-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"WhatsApp Image 2017-09-04 at 2.47.53 PM\" width=\"840\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-09-04-at-2.47.53-PM.jpeg 840w, http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-09-04-at-2.47.53-PM-300x209.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-09-04-at-2.47.54-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-809\" src=\"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-09-04-at-2.47.54-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"WhatsApp Image 2017-09-04 at 2.47.54 PM\" width=\"982\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-09-04-at-2.47.54-PM.jpeg 982w, http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-09-04-at-2.47.54-PM-300x179.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 982px) 100vw, 982px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-09-04-at-2.47.56-PM-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-810\" src=\"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-09-04-at-2.47.56-PM-1.jpeg\" alt=\"WhatsApp Image 2017-09-04 at 2.47.56 PM (1)\" width=\"878\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-09-04-at-2.47.56-PM-1.jpeg 878w, http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-09-04-at-2.47.56-PM-1-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-09-04-at-2.47.56-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-811\" src=\"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-09-04-at-2.47.56-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"WhatsApp Image 2017-09-04 at 2.47.56 PM\" width=\"968\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-09-04-at-2.47.56-PM.jpeg 968w, http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-09-04-at-2.47.56-PM-300x181.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 968px) 100vw, 968px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-09-04-at-2.47.57-PM-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-812\" src=\"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-09-04-at-2.47.57-PM-1.jpeg\" alt=\"WhatsApp Image 2017-09-04 at 2.47.57 PM (1)\" width=\"650\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-09-04-at-2.47.57-PM-1.jpeg 650w, http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-09-04-at-2.47.57-PM-1-300x270.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-09-04-at-2.47.59-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-813\" src=\"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-09-04-at-2.47.59-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"WhatsApp Image 2017-09-04 at 2.47.59 PM\" width=\"962\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-09-04-at-2.47.59-PM.jpeg 962w, http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-09-04-at-2.47.59-PM-300x182.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onam is an annual festival with origins in Kerala, heralding peace and prosperity. It falls in the Malayalam calendar month of CHINGAM. This festival commemorates King Mahabali, Vamana (Vishnu Avatar) related mythology of Hinduism. It is a major annual event for Malayalee people as a start of new year along with summer harvest and celebrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gdgoenkarohtak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}