Thousands of devotees descended on the Vaigai riverbed in Madurai, early on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, and waited for hours to witness the annual ritual of Lord Kallazhagar entering the river as part of the Chithirai festival.
With a radiant full moon above and scores of floodlights, men and women thronged both the banks of the Vaigai river from late on Monday night, wading through the water into the middle of the river and surrounding the barricaded venue near Albert Victor Bridge.
