Culturally and historically the last month of the Malayalam calendar Karkidaka got great importance.
This month is representative of rain and poverty in old days.
So there was a special religious occasion that has been practising for nearly 500 years, considered a holy month in preventing bad impacts of this month.
But In houses, the recitation of Ramayana was observed for nearly 40 years.
"The decision in this regard was taken at a meeting of Swami Chinmayananda, Swami Visweswara Theertha, seers; Karan Singh, regarded as a cultural ambassador; and Rajendra Singh, former RSS chief, in Ernakulam in 1982"
.https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/how-karkidakam-got-its-holy-tag/article28526420.ece
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