The bygone era is marked by the simplicity that distinguished their lives from that of their descendants. The will to share, suffer and sacrifice; the readiness to walk in step with the fellow human beings; the sincerity of purpose and above all their conscious choice to live symmetrically with their own habitat!
They found pleasure in simple things; found reason to celebrate almost any occasion that could be something so characteristically informal in todays standards.
Thus there have been so many "kalyanam"s (കല്യാണം - marriage or celebration). The renewal of the thatching the roofs called to be the pura kettu kalyanam (പുര കെട്ട് കല്യാണം). The circumcision of the Muslim boys used to be markka kalyanam (മാര്ക്കകല്യാണം). The coming of age of the girls was celebrated as theendari kalyanam(തീണ്ടാരി കല്യാണം). And of course, the marriages are celebrated as the ultimate kalyanam.
