Adiperukku and Ayyanar festival
Adiperukku and Ayyanar festival is presented by Dakshina Chitra, in association with the Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation. The festival is to be held from July 27 to August 4 between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. at Dakshina Chitra, Muttakadu, ECR.
Adiperukku is celebrated on the 18th day of the Tamil month of Adi in which communities from villages and towns, join in for a day of thanksgiving to the life-giving properties of water.
Ayyanar is a guardian deity believed to protect villages. A procession taking terracotta offerings to the Ayyanar shrine at Dakshina Chitra will be taken on August 4.
The line-up also includes folk performances such as Thappattam, kummi, kolattam and oyilattam; display and sale of wood carving / inlay craft; documentary film screening on the Ganges; and models of water harvesting.
For details, call 2446-2435 / 98411-84149.
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