Chettinad Heritage and Cultural Festival : A reason to celebrate Tamil history, culture, and cuisine

Five editions ago, erstwhile the speech surrounding the Chettinad Heritage and Cultural Festival archetypal began, the approvals were frankly straightforward. “Yacob George [late wide manager, The Bangla, a practice guesthouse successful Karaikudi] asked if we could bash it, and I said yes,” says the laminitis and proprietor of The Bangala, Meenakshi Meyyappan.

Leela Samson curated the archetypal variation with astir 70-80 guests. “We knew that she was the idiosyncratic for the job. She chartered retired the full programme and that is however the archetypal variation went,” says Mrs. Meyyappan. Over the years, the festival which takes radical done a nuanced knowing of the Nattukottai Chettiars, their traditions and customs, became bigger. There were tours of century-old mansions with symmetric Burma teak pillars and lit by Belgian chandeliers and Italian marble flooring. These were built, mostly successful the 19th Century by the mercantile Chettiar community, who travelled and worked each implicit South-East Asia, according to an nonfiction successful The Hindu.