Kulasai Dasara Festival by Mahesh Balasubramanian

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Kulasai Dasara Festival

Copyright Mahesh Balasubramanian 2024

Updated Oct 2020

Location kulasekarapattinam

Topics Culture, Document, Documentary, Editorial, Faith, Hinduism, India, Kulasai, Kulasekarapattinam Dasara Festival, People, Photography, Religion, Spirituality, Street, Tamilnadu, Travel

Sri Mutharmman temple is located at Kulasekharapattinam village near Tiruchendur 55 km south of Tuticorin, Tamilnadu, India. In this temple Dasara is being celebrated as a big festival. Lakhs of people are assemble here to celebrate this festival. The uniqueness and oddity of the festival is that the devotees need not spend from their pocket. They are expected to beg alms from door to door and a token offerings only is expected to be offered at shrine after meeting out their expenses. On the climatic day the sea shores of this otherwise deserted coastal village turns into veritable carnival of folk music and folk dance of the devotees in their chosen fancy dresses to either solicit the grace of or to thank for the boon granted by presiding deity Sri Muthramman considered to be the incarnation of Sakthi the consort of Lord Shiva in Hinduism.

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