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The event was held after the High Court dismissed a petition filed against the event by KR Mahadevan from Mattannur.
Social, cultural, literary and artistic personalities lead the ceremony on Tuesday.
Parents or guardians can contact Manorama offices from Thursday between 9.30 am and 5.30 pm to submit names of children for participating in the programme.
A tradition among many ardent believers of goddess Saraswati to honour her for three days towards the end of the Navaratri festival.
Prominent cultural leaders will initiate the children into the ‘World of Letters' on Vijayadashami Day at all these centres.
Vijayadasami is observed as the day of ''Vidyarambham'', the beginning of learning, in the southern state, marking the culmination of the annual Navaratri festival.
Arrangements will be made at the 11 Manorama units in Kerala, Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and Dubai, where prominent social icons will initiate children to the world of letters.
Cutting across barriers of religion, caste and class, hundreds of children in Kerala took part in the 'Vidyarambham' ritual, the age-old tradition of initiating children into the world of knowledge.