Authored by: Narayani Ganesh Murugan is invoked as ‘hill god’, lord of Kurinji mountains, popular among Tamils of western and eastern ghats of India, and Tamils in Sri Lanka, Singapore, and ...

2025 August aligns with the traditional Hindu Lunar calendar month of Shravana and Bhadrapada for the followers of both the ...

Lord Murugan's symbolic importance is not new in TN. Last year, the DMK government organised a global conference on Murugan to showcase him as a secular cultural icon of the Tamil diaspora.

When Valli goes to get him some water, Murugan begs his brother, elephant-god Ganesh to help out. So his brother comes in the form of a wild elephant and charges towards Valli, who, alarmed, runs ...