Usha Nangiar

“When we started the festival in 1991, travelling to Kerala was a long and difficult journey and people did not travel such long distances very frequently. So the idea to start the Keli festival was to create a feeling of home away from home,” says Ramachandran K, director of Keli, a festival that now aims to develop and promote the cultural heritage of the verdant state. The first phase of the festival begins tomorrow with a focus on Nangiar Koothu.