Pongala snaps

Its Pongala

Waiting for the fire

The pongala rush video

The market place

The curios

Pongala snaps

Pongala rush

Women flowed into the Pongala city right from the morning. The city virtually turned to a village, people mingling more freely with each other; it is a sublime realisation that all are equal, and all are women and mothers and daughters at heart, a clebration of womanhood.  It's the divine meaning and spiritual power of pongala.

Festival lights

Watch the video of festival lights

Festival delicacy

Festival colours

Theruvilakku

Festival night

Attukal Devi temple festival begins

Devotees inside the Attukal temple to witness kappukettu and kudiyiruthu

Pancharimelam by women

Temple at night

Attukal Devi temple festival 2012 began with the traditional kappukettu and kudiyiruthu ceremony in the evening at 7.15 today. Thousands of devotees thronged the temple premises to witness the sacred ceremony.

Kuthiyottam

Watch Kuthiyottam video from Konchiravila Devi temple, Trivandrum

Ezhunnallippu

Ezhunnallippu of Konchiravila Devi temple, watch video

Pongala pots line city roads

Pongala pots have lined the road stretch from East Fort to Attukal a week ahead of Attukal Pongala 2012. Pot makers have come from the border areas of Parassala, and from Marthandam and Kanyakumari in Tamilnadu, even though the local vendors form the majority.

Attukal temple gets a facelift

The nadapandal that stretches upto the parking area behind the temple

The new look temple premise

Electrical illumination work in progress

Meeting the deadline : construction work in progress

The renovation works at the Attukal temple premises are progressing fast to give a new look for the temple before the Attukal pongala festival. Painting of the temple is over and the electrical illumination workd have stated. The work of the main venue where cultural feast is conducted is going on. Laying of tiles in the new nadapandal that stretches upto the parking area behind the temple is almost over.

Attukal Pongala 2012 preparations

Festival season begins

The festival season has commenced with the arrival of the month of Kumbham (February-March). Most of the festivals of Bhadrakali temples in Trivandrum commence in February. The video shows the festival procession from Mutharamman temple in Trivandrum.  

Joy of pongala

Darshan at Attukal



Fishes in the temple pond



Preparations in progress

Pongala is near and the preparations are on. The Attukal temple is witnessing a huge rush of devotees, mainly women, which will gradually increase in the coming days. The district administration and the Trivandrum Corporation has geared up for providing facilities on a war footing. Tarring of roads, cleaning of the drainage lines, repairs of water pipes are going on around the vicinities of the temple. The temple authorities have started the preparations long back, the painting of the temple is almost over, laying of terracota tiles in the newly constructed nadapandal is in the final stage. Come to the temple and you can sense the fragrance of Attukal Pongala.

Mystic air of Pongala

Attukal Devi temple this morning

Women lighting naranga vilakku

Come to Attukal Devi temple and you will inhale the mystic air of pongala, even though the holy rite is months ahead, and that's the divinity which lingers around this unique ritual, the Attukal Pongala is on March 7, 2012. Today being the first day of Malayalam month Thulam, the temple witnessed a moderate rush of devotees.