Chithirai Thiruvillaa is the name of the festival here in Madurai, celebrating the marriage of the Goddes Meenakshi with Sundareswarar on Chitirai Pournami or new moon of this Tamil month. Her brother Kallalagar came one day too late.

The festival started the 21 April, the traffic in the city was all jammed ..., I went next day, on Sunday to see this Kerala Drum group announcing the daily evening procession around the city starting from the East King Tower (Raja Gopuram). The instrument including the horns are called chenda vadhyam ...

if you can walk, you can dance,
if you can speak you can sing.