Thinking of Festival time...

When I think of Festival time in madurai..., I remember my childhood days.
When I was in my lower ages, my grandmother used to take me to all the temples she used to go. That too when Chitrai festival or Thaipoosam comes, then I will be with her only. She used to catch my hand so that I never slip away from her. :-)Now I miss her a lot and also I miss these festivals in madurai. Now as I am working in a company situated kilometers away from madurai, I am not getting time to even think about it. Even If I think of going to these festivals, I should get leave(provided there is no work left urgent in the project), mode of transport to madurai (the worst thing I like to forget), etc. things are there and immediately the plan gets cancelled. This is not my condition, but many people may have faced this.
I think, today the car festival (Therottam) would have happened. (I missed this.) :-(

Madurai Meenakshi Goddess Wedding celebrated in Madurai: Thirukkalyanam: Chithrai Festival

The celestial wedding of Lord Sundareswarar with Goddess Meenakshi in Madurai was celebrated in a grand manner with thousands of pilgrims offering worship to the deities on Friday.

The wedding was part of the 12 day Chithrai festival of the famous Sri Meenakshi temple in Madurai city.

Devotees donated MOII - money for the goddess wedding:)

Happy Tamil New Year 2008 - Sarvadhari Varusham: Madurai wishes

HAPPY and PROSPEROUS TAMIL NEW YEAR 2008 to all our visitors and their family/friends/relatives.

Iniya tamizh puthaandu nalvaazhthukkall 2008!!!

-From Madurai Well-wishers, "Made In Madurai" and "Madurai Times".

Madurai Goddess Meenakshi Wedding - Live Webcast at maduraimeenakshi.org - Web Telecast - Chitra/Chithirai - Chithra Festival - Chithra Thiruvizha

The celestial Wedding of Goddess Meenakshi with Lord Sundareswarar at the famous Sri Meenakshi temple in Madurai will be telecast live on the internet on April 18, temple officials said.

Devotees can log on to www.maduraimeenakshi.org website to watch the event, Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Temple T.Kannan and the Executive Officer B.Raja said.

They told newsmen at Madurai that the 12-day festival would begin on April l9 and Pattabhishekam(Coronation)would be held on April 16 followed by Dhigvijayam (Deities visiting the city)on April 17. The Car festival would be held on April 19.

A temple feast would be organised when about 50,000 devotees would be provided free feast on the wedding day.

Since the four 'Chitrai' streets were in a bad shape,the Corporation authorities had been requested to repair them for the festival.

The wedding programme would be telecast live using LCD projectors in two big screens in the temple. Besides 40 TV sets would be installed at different points in the temple to enable people to see the function, they said.

sourcing from newstodaynet/thatstamil/hindu/indianexpress

Chithra Festival Live from Madurai

This is a very famous festival in Madurai - Could be called Chithirai, Chithra, Chitra festival - which includes marriage of gods - in other words Madurai Meenakshi Thirukkalyanam.

Now it comes live and it is sponsored by Winways Systems Private Limited.,



The celestial wedding of the Goddess and the Lord which will be solemnized between the auspicious hours of 8.26 am and 8.50 am on Tuesday at the special wedding hall of the temple, which had been colourfully decorated with a variety of blossoms.

This is a unique ritual which is attended by thousands of devotees from all over the State of Tamil Nadu. The temple authorities have made special arrangements to enable the devotees of the deities the world over, to watch the proceedings alive through internet. The facility is being sponsored by Winways Systems Private Ltd., Madurai. Devotees world over, could watch this colourful climax of the festival by logging on to www.maduraimeenakshi.org from 7.30am IST.

Read More in Madurai Meenakshi dot ORG

Updated ----08th April 2008
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