TO some people, Thaipusam may just be another public holiday but to Hindus, it is a sacred time which commemorates the occasion when Hindu Goddess Parvati gave her son, Murugan, a vel (spear) so he could vanquish the evil demon Soorapadam. Leading up to the festival, devotees cleanse themselves through prayer, fasting and practising celibacy, [...]
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Prayer and devotion
Posted: 7th February 2012 by R.AGE in Off the HookTags: celebration, Hindu, Thaipusam
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The disappearance of American pilot Amelia Mary Earhart (together with her navigator and airplane) may just be one of the most famous unsolved mysteries in the history of the world. She disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean during an attempt to circumnavigate the globe in 1937. She was 39. Throughout her career, Earhart had set [...]
ON Monday, 468,808 form five students across the country sat for the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examination, and there was only one question on many of the candidates’ minds as they sat for the Malay Language paper – what is ‘cepumas’? In one question, students were asked to form a sentence using the word ‘cepumas’ [...]