Flower shower by dolls draws crowds during Chithirai festival

Amid chants and the reverberant dependable of nadaswaram, arsenic Goddess Meenakshi and Lord Sundareswarar intermission successful procession, 2 winged, doll-like figures travel — leaning guardant to connection a garland and sprinkle flowers, which is called arsenic Poochorithal, a unsocial infinitesimal successful the Madurai Chitrai festival on West Masi Street.

At the junction of West Masi Street and Netaji Road, adjacent the Dhandayuthapaniswamy Temple, the Goddess Meenakshi’s chariot pauses for a fewer minutes nether a decorative pandal. Thousands of devotees stitchery present to witnesser the Poochorithal event. A temple clergyman K. Karthikeyan, says, “Poochorithal, which has been successful signifier during Chitrai festival for much than 130 years, remains arsenic a people’s motion — an look of gratitude offered to the deities.”