{"id":16388,"date":"2019-04-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2019\/04\/29\/tamil-new-year-celebrations-in-malaysia\/"},"modified":"2019-04-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T12:00:00","slug":"tamil-new-year-celebrations-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2019\/04\/29\/tamil-new-year-celebrations-in-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil New Year Celebrations in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/metro\/metro-news\/2019\/04\/27\/united-in-their-devotion\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/~\/media\/online\/2019\/04\/26\/18\/03\/92345.ashx\/?w=620&#038;h=413&#038;crop=1&#038;hash=EC6077D31D0A6AE68ACA29E34A40905AB7A9C8C4\" style=\"max-width:100%;object-fit:scale-down;\" \/><br \/>PENANG, MALAYSIA, April 27, 2019 (The Star): The Chitraparuvam Festival in Penang has been a yearly affair for devotees Kenny Lim and Shasha Wong. Seen wearing traditional Indian attire during the mini Thaipusam parade at Waterfall Road, Lim and Wong even brought a Bhajan cart which played devotional music. Wong, 45, who designed the cart carrying Lord Ganesha, said she has been paying her respects during Thaipusam and Chitraparuvam for over 20 years. &#8220;I think it is fate that helped us become devotees of Lord Ganesha and Lord Muruga,&#8221; she said. &#8220;More than 20 years ago, my friend brought me to a Hindu temple and after that, I felt destined to become a Hindu devotee,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Hindu Mahajana Sangam president Dr. Chandra Malairaja said the procession was held to mark the first full moon of the Tamil New Year. &#8220;The chariot parade carrying Lord Muruga starts from the Waterfall Temple,&#8221; said Dr. Chandra. &#8220;It then passes through Jalan Kebun Bunga, Macalister Road, Penang Road and Chulia Street before arriving at Sri Maha Mariamman Temple in Queen Street,&#8221; he added. The festival drew more than 20,000 devotees who flocked to various panthal (refreshment stalls) along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source PENANG, MALAYSIA, April 27, 2019 (The Star): The Chitraparuvam Festival in Penang has been a yearly affair for devotees,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}