On the tenth day, Thiruvonam, folks gather at their ancestral homes or tharavads.

After a ritual bath, visits to the temple everybody dons crisp new clothes and sits down to the traditional Onam feast on plantain leaves or Ona Sadya -- rice, parippu, sambar, rasam and vegetables and sweet payasam. Photograph: Raveendran/AFP/Getty Images

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