Towering rhythm, trumpeting majesty

"Rallying festivity"

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India Picture by Don Sebastian
Travel story: Towering rhythm, trumpeting majesty

Two rows of drummers and three rows of pipers are building a tower of rhythm in front of the Bhagati temple in Nayarambalam. As the melam reaches a crescendo, men on top of the nine caparisoned elephants behind the pipers stand up, ritualistically fanning their alavattom and venchamaram. Pambadi Rajan, the King of Elephants that presides over the nine tuskers, stands majestically with four men and the deity on its top.

Eight days and eight nights of festivities have left the... More