This year’s Bengaluru Karaga festivities began on April 8 at the Dharmaraya Swamy Temple in the heart of the city. While the ‘hasi Karaga’ will be taken out on April 14, the ‘Karaga Shakyotsava’ (the main event) will be held on April 16.
The Karaga will be celebrated on a grand scale after a gap of two years. Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the celebrations were restricted to within the Dharmaraya Swamy Temple in 2020 and 2021.
As per the ritual, the Karaga will visit the Hazrat Tawakkal Mastan Dargah and then proceed along the traditional route. There were rumours that certain persons identifying with a few right-wing groups had objected to the Karaga visiting the dargah.
