Navratri Festival

We attended the Navratri festival at the temple last night. Raman invited us along and we turned up at 9.30pm. There was an amazing rhythm coming from the drummers and singers on the stage and the room was a swirl of men and woman dancing in concentric circles around the deity in the centre of the room. Occasionally the beats would speed up and chants of 'WUP WUP!' would echo around the hall.

After a while Raman invited us to dance and we did




As we were left we were presented with a gift of fruit and sweets

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