The festival of Onam continues for ten days in the state of Kerala. The ten-day Onam festival falls in August-September, coinciding with the beginning of the harvest season. Onam is still celebrated with gaiety and joy on all the ten days of the festivities. There are some set rituals for each day and the people of Kerala dutifully follow them. The mood of people is upbeat all through the festival.
Of all these days the first day Atham and the tenth day Thiruvonam are the most significant ones. Ninth day Uthradam is also considered to be extremely important from the point of view of the celebrations in several parts of Kerala.

Lord Krishna is one of the most loved and revered Gods in the Hindu religion. He is regarded as the eighth incarnation of Lord Vishnu born as human in ‘Dwapur Yug' (Iron Age). He was a “Yaduvanshi” and is said to have been born between 3200 and 3100 BC according to Indian and Western researchers. Lord Krishna was born as the eighth child of Devki and Vasudev but was brought up by Mata Yashoda and Baba Nand. Janmashtami..