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Cape Festival at Kanyakumari
Kanyakumari, also known as "Cape Comorin" is located at the southern most tip of India, where the Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea meet.
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Chithirai Festival
Celebrated in Madurai a spectacular re-enactment of the marriage of the Pandiyan princess Meenakshi to Lord Sundareswarar.
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Festivals of Dakshinachitra
Dakshinachitra is a unique Heritage village situated at Muttukadu on the new Mamallapuram coastal road, 20-km from Chennai. |
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Karthigai Deepam
Karthigai Deepam is the oldest festival of South India , which is as well the most complicated and the most significant festival.
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Kavadi Festival
Dancing in a hypnotic trance to the rhythm of drums, devotees of Muruga carry the 'Kavadi' a flower-decked decoration, all the way up the Palani Hills to fulfil
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Natyanjali Dance Festival
Starts from the day of Mahashivaratri, for 5 days. Chidambaram is situated along the coast of the Bay of Bengal, 75 kms south of Pondicherry.
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Panguni Uthiram Festival
The Panguni Uthiram festival falls in the month 'Panguni' (March-April). This month is special because of the star 'Uthiram' and 'Pournami'
occurring together.
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Pongal
A majority of the population
of India depends on agriculture. As a result, most of the festivals are
also related to the agricultural activities of the people.
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Saral Festival
A festival that makes a celebration out of a simple, daily ritual bathing! And indeed, a bath at the picturesque Courtallam
waterfalls is not an ordinary event.
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Summer
Festival
The summer festival might find you in the 'Queen of Hill Stations', the evergreen Ooty; the exquisite Kodaikkanal or the salubrious heights of Yercaud
- where boat races, flower and fruit shows are specially organized.
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Velankanni Festival
Wondrous legends surround the church-the most
famous being that of the ship-wrecked Portuguese sailors, who in the
16th century, vowed to build a great shrine for the Virgin Mary, for
saving their lives in a terrible storm.
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