thaipusam

The Hindu festival of Thaipusam, which commemorates the day when Goddess Pavarthi gave her son Lord Muruga an invincible lance with which he destroyed evil demons, was celebrated by som...

Hindu devotees celebrated Thaipusam festival in Batu Caves near Kuala Lumpur as thousands of Hindus, who comprise over eight percent of the population, participated in the annual thanks...

The Hindu festival of Thaipusam, celebrated mostly by the Tamil community on the full moon day in the Tamil calendar, took place in honour of the deity Lord Murugan. Georgetown, Malaysi...

Reports of a million people turned up in Penang as the procession starts on the morning before Thaipusam. 6th February 2012

Thousands of Hindu devotees come to the Lord Murugan temple during the Thaipusam festival in Batu Caves, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Hindu Devotees Celebrate the yearly celebration of Thaipusam at the Batu Caves temple, 20km from Kuala Lumpur City, Malaysia. 7th February 2012.

Thousands of people participated in the annual Hindu thanksgiving festival in which devotees subject themselves to painful rituals in a demonstration of faith and penance, held in the c...

Thousands of Malaysian Hindu devotees participated in the annual celebration of Thaipusam at the Batu Caves temple 30 km outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 7th February 2012

Thousands of Hindus, who comprise over eight percent of Malaysia's 28 million total population, participated in the annual Hindu thanksgiving festival in the capital at the Batu Ca...

Thousands of Hindu devotees prayed in front of the Lord Muruga's chariot during the annual Thaipusam festival in the capital. Malaysia. 6th February 2012

Thaipusam celebration in Malaysia. Georgetown, Penang. 20th January 2011

The annual Thaipusam festival was celebrated at Batu Caves. The colorful parade and dancing of Kavadi Attam attracted at least a million Hindus devotees and tourists to the ceremonial w...

Thousands of Malaysian Hindu Devotees celebrate Thaipusam on 20th January 2010. In Malaysia, Batu Caves, near to Kuala Lumpur, is one of the places where Hindus devotees gathered to cel...

The Hindu festival Thaipusam is celebrated in Malaysia as over one million people are drawn to the temple at Batu Caves. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 20/01/2011

Hundreds of thousands of Hindu devotee carries a kavadi and pal kodam (milk) in a pot during Thaipusam festival at Batu Caves temple near Kuala Lumpur. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 20/01/2...

Millions of old coconuts were broken as a form of thanksgiving by Hindu devotees and foreign tourists in conjunction of the annual celebration of Thaipusam in Georgetown, Penang, Malays...

DMTX. Images of the celebrations of Thaipusam which is celebrated on the 10th month of the Hindu calendar, which falls in January or February each year. It is a day of penance and thank...

DMTX. Thaipusam Hindu festival, held in the Tamil month of Thai which celebrates the birth of Murugan,the youngest son of Shiva and his wife Parvati. The festival at Batu Caves, Kuala L...

A Malaysian Hindu devotee takes part in a cleansing ritual before his pilgrimage to the sacred Batu Caves temple during Thaipusam in Kuala Lumpur January 30, 2010.

DMTX. An estimated two million devotees of the Hindu supreme god Lord Shiva converge on the town of Tiruvannamalai, to celebrate the full moon in the Tamil month of Tai on January 29th....