Karthigai Dheepam

Yesterday was the festival of Karthigai Dheepam. Today was its spill-over, also named as Kuppai Karthigai.

Due to my interview schedule yesterday, I couldn't participate much in the events at home last evening. By the time I reached home, my folks had pretty much completed the formalities of lighting the agal villakku and placing them at all the strategic places - like vasal padi, main gate, pillars etc.

But today, I was clearly warned by my mother not to venture outside and take up the job of placing the lamps everywhere.

I did the best I could. But unlike yesterday, there was a lot of wind today. This meant that the flame went out quite often and I had to run around from one lamp to another to keep them going. If that was not enough, there was the obvious consumption of oil in these lamps, so I had to closely monitor the oil levels and replenish the stock in each lamp continuously.

All in all it was quite a tiring job(!) and I am now taking a well deserved rest.

These pictures were taken yesterday.