Pulikkali (Tiger Dance)
- Recently, human tigers and leopards pranced about the streets in a rollicking show of Pulikkali to lend a carnivalesque finish to Onam celebrations.
- Pulikkali (Tiger Dance) is one of the folk art forms of Kerala.
- On the fourth day of the Onam festival, artists paint their bodies like tigers with stripes of yellow, red and black and dance to the rhythm of traditional percussion instruments such as thakil, udukku and chenda.
- The main theme of this folk art is tiger hunting, with participants playing the role of tiger and hunter.
- It was introduced by the erstwhile ruler of Cochin, Maharaja ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
To get access to detailed content
Already a Member? Login here
Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material since 2018 of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
News Snippets
- 1 Regional Power Conference with North Eastern States
- 2 President Droupadi Murmu Visits Slovakia
- 3 Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS)
- 4 India VIX
- 5 SAARC Visa Exemption Scheme
- 6 DigiLocker
- 7 SEFCO-2025
- 8 Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT)
- 9 Index of Industrial Production (IIP)
- 10 Tax Collected at Source
