Thai Pusam

The month of Thai is considered to be auspicious by many for marriages and other social events in their family. The entire community participates in the festival with religious fervor to the sounds of devotional songs and immersed in a sea of throbbing drums.

The Thai Pusam festival is best observed in Tamil Nadu, especially in major Shaivite temple towns like Kanchipuram, Madurai. Since the Tamil Diaspora is well distributed all round the world, Thai Pusam is also celebrated traditionally in the West Indies, Fiji Islands , Sri Lanka, South Africa, Singapore and Malaysia. The Batu Caves in Malaysia sees over 2 million devotees congregate there in a spectacle that is, at once, a massive display of man's faith and a Hindu's innate capacity for penance as a path of devotion.

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