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I was in the arid land of Chettinad when I decided to explore the coastal area around Karakudi. Thanks to the folks at The Bangala they drove me down to Mimisal 43 km from Karaikudi, Tamilnadu in the Pudukottai District. The major city closest to this place is Madurai around 114km. A small town, I spent around an hour in this hamlet scouting through the market and its coastline. This town has a weekly sandai as called in the Tamil language for a market. A dominating population of the Muslin…
My second post on clan deities. It was my niece’s ear piercing ceremony which is normally done when the kid turns one year old. This ceremony is celebrated in the presence of friends, relatives at the clan temple and the kid’s head is tonsured after which the ear’s are pierced. Each temple and cult has it’s own story to narrate as regards it’s culture and traditions. I walked into the stone carved Solaiappan Swamy Temple in Kattunaickenpatti which is in the Tuticorin district of Tamilnadu. This was my sister’s clan deity…
It was my maternal grandmother’s first death anniversary, me and my cousins travelled to offer our prayers to the clan deity Lord Shiva. A forty five minute ride from Sivakasi, Tamilnadu in an auto rickshaw took us to the Koodamadayar Temple in Puthupatti on the banks of River Arjun. Kooda meaning basket and adayar meaning closed in Tamil. Legend states a villager stumbled on to this place and blood started oozing from the land. He covered the place with his basket and left for the day. Later people lifted the…
Yesterday I had again been to the Balaji Temple in Pashan, Pune. It was a special occasion and there were musicians from Tamilnadu to play the Nadaswaram the acoustic musical instrument of south India. It is made of a wood and is a cousin of the shehnai but larger. The percussion accompaniment to the nadaswaram is the thavil a barrel like drum. On one hand the player wears caps in his finger while in the other he holds a stick. It is either played sitting or with the thavil hanging round the neck standing.
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