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DMK invokes Lord Muruga to countering an ‘anti-Hindu’ image

adminAugust 27, 202408 mins

[ad_1] A section of visitors at an exhibition hall during the Muthamizh Murugan International Conference held at Palani in Tamil Nadu’s Dindigul district on August 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: G. Karthikeyan Has the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) government invoked Muruga, the god of Tamils, as an antidote to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s Rama…

Folk Deities of Tamil Nadu | Gods who love surruttus and chappals

adminAugust 22, 202409 mins

[ad_1] It happened almost 35 years ago. The elders in my village had assembled to discuss a curious demand by the samiyadi (oracle) of the local Sudalaimadan temple, the presiding deity of graveyards. He insisted that the village should organise a kodai (festival) as the deity was very particular about it. “He is not letting…