Karkitaka Vavu

Keralites perform 'bali tharpanam' ritual

Thousands of people in Kerala today performed the 'bali tharpanam' ritual to propitiate departed souls on the auspicious occasion of 'Karkitaka vavu', the eve of the new moon of the last month of the Malayalam calendar. Devotees thronged river banks and seashores in the early hours to perform the annual ceremony to remember their ancestors and pray...