The Indian calendar in practice

Our language always had references to the calendar. My grandparents surely did, as did my parents. But when we moved to the city, we slowly began to lose it.

The Malayalam calendar goes somewhat like this.

Months:
Makaram - the harvest month
Kumbham, Meenam - hot months of February/March approx
Medam - Vishu the new year festival
Edavapadhi - rains began from the middle of Edavam - pre monsoon
Mithunam - Rains the real monsoon - Southwest
Karkadakam - More rains
Chingam - Rains are gone and things are back to normal
Kanji - Festival season of gods - but no marriages
Tulam - Tulavarsham - another round of rains - the North east monsoon
Vrishchikam - Festival season
Dhanu -

Language was interspersed with time and seasons.

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