Flag Hoisting Ceremony: 2020 Arunachala Karthigal Festival

 

The below sequence of photographs are of the flag hoisting ceremony at Arunachaleswarar Temple denoting the beginning of the 2020 Arunachala Karthigal Mahadeepam Festival. To learn the significance of this flag hoisting ceremony, visit this link here. 

Now that devotees carrying the Palanquins of the Gods seem to be exempt from wearing masks, I will try and post a good selection of upcoming functions. 

 

 

 

A Visit to Karthigai Festival

The below video is part of a BBC series entitled ‘The Story of India’. In this video, the lady the narrator interviews, talks about Karthigai at around the 2.20 minute mark. Thereafter the narrator boards a bus with the lady and heads for Tiruvannamalai to witness the Karthigai Festival.

To read more about this T.V. series, go to this link here.