Celebrating Thaipusam: Celebrated during the full moon in the Tamil month of Thai, Thaipusam is a time to ask Lord Murugan, son of Lord Shiva, for forgiveness, good health and peace in the new year.

Thaipusam 2025 celebration will begin at 6 on February 10 and will end on Poosam Nakshathram, ie at 6:34 pm on Feberuary 11. (More to come) Devotees carry milk jugs during Thaipusam festival.

Thaipusam is a beguiling Tamil festival where followers of the Hindu god Lord Murugan pierce their bodies with hundreds of skewers and hooks to show their devotion. Thaipusam is an overdose for ...

Thaipusam, a significant Hindu festival, is celebrated on the full moon in the Tamil month of Thai. It honors Lord Murugan and includes rituals such as Kavadi Attam and body piercing, symbolizing ...

Thaipusam honors Murugan, the Hindu god of war and victory, and participants go to extreme measures to show their gratitude. The traditional way to celebrate Thaipusam is to bear a kavadi, ...

Hundreds of thousands of Hindus flocked to the sacred grotto in Selangor, Malaysia, to celebrate the religious festival of Thaipusam. Early on Tuesday morning, worshippers climbed the 272 steps of ...

Construction of the escalator, as well as a new “multipurpose hall” will begin after this year’s Thaipusam festival which falls on January 25, Nadarajah added.

Practitioners of Thaipusam show devotion to encounter their gods. Our God came to us first. As a new resident of Malaysia, the first time I saw the festival of Thaipusam in 2022, I was horrified ...

In sending the greeting, PAS secretary-general Takiyuddin Hassan said Thaipusam was yet another manifestation of Malaysia’s diversity that helped foster openness, simplicity, compromise, mutual ...

ALOR SETAR: The Thaipusam “public holiday” in Kedah is an “event holiday” (cuti peristiwa) and not a gazetted holiday. Mentri Besar Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor’s special officer ...

As part of the rituals in the Hindu festival Thaipusam, participants engage in various acts of devotion – including piercing their skin, tongue or cheeks.

Thaipusam 2025: Lakhs of devotees are celebrating Thaipusam 2025 and worship Lord Murugan, the god of war, victory and wisdom. The festival is celebrated on the full moon in the Tamil month of Thai.