Will he? Won’t he? Festivals remain popular and stay relevant when they don’t try too hard to reinvent themselves as something else, say, a youthquake. Nothing much has changed in the over two centuries of the Thrissur Pooram: a throbbing, vibrant face-off between two ancient temples, Thiruvambadi and Paramekkavu, in addition to eight smaller ones. Everyone assembles at the Thekkinkadu Maidan, a 65-acre park in the centre of Thrissur town with the iconic Vadakkumnathan temple sitting atop a hillock presiding over. The Maidan once used to be a dense forest