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By MELLY LING alltherage@thestar.com.my DENESH Ratnam has been part of the Thaipusam celebration at the Waterfall Road in Penang since he was a young boy. His father used to take him to the Lord Murugan temple atop the hill during Thaipusam. Denesh remembers the yearly pilgrimage as an event that he and his siblings would […]
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, […]