Festival of faith and livelihood

As processions upwind done the streets of Madurai during the Chithirai festival, the celebrations widen beyond ritual, bringing unneurotic devotees, artisans and tiny traders successful a taste experience.

Veteran epigraphist V. Vedachalam describes the festival arsenic a long-standing taste span betwixt agrarian and municipality communities, noting that radical from assorted parts of Tamil Nadu get successful the metropolis up of the festival and enactment until it gets over.