Overview
- After Thiruvonam on Sept. 5, hotels and restaurants across Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune staged banana-leaf feasts and offered meal boxes, with events continuing through Sept. 7.
- A French resident in Delhi, Julia Chaigneau, shared her first Sadhya experience as “incredible” in a post that went viral.
- Chefs unveiled contemporary interpretations of classics such as payasam, avial, olan and inji puli, including a palm-jaggery caramel pudding, an inji puli–inspired mocktail, ragi waffle canapés and other plated riffs.
- Coverage reiterates the Sadhya as a multi-dish vegetarian spread served on a plantain leaf that embodies communal equality during Onam.
- Catered convenience is increasingly replacing home cooking, with reported per-person prices around Rs 250–1,000 and a plantain leaf at Rs 100 on Thiru Onam day.