Bali Rituals

A Czech couple slammed for disrespecting a Balinese temple took part in a ritual purification ceremony Thursday, after their antics sparked warnings that boorish tourists may be kicked off the Indonesian holiday island.

Indonesia's bustling tourist island Bali is set to go quiet with Internet service and flights temporarily halted for a "Day of Silence", while young people get ready to pucker up.

Incessant rains in Kerala have submerged the famous Shiva temple at Aluva, where thousands of people were expected to gather today for a religious ritual. The devotees were forced to perform the ritual, Bali Tharpanam, at temporary sheds put up by the state administration near the temple, 27 km from Kochi.

Thousands of people in Kerala today performed the 'bali tharpanam' ritual to propitiate departed souls on the auspicious occasion of 'Karkitaka vavu', the eve of the new moon of the last month of the Malayalam calendar. Devotees thronged river banks and seashores in the early hours to perform the annual ceremony to remember their ancestors and pray...

Thousands of people across the state today thronged holly rivers and beaches to take a dip and offer 'Vavu Bali',a ritual offering to please forefathers, on the day of vavu on Malayalam month Karkkadakom.Since early morning itself people from different parts of the district flocked the famous Parasurama Temple,Sankumugam beach here an...

A Czech couple slammed for disrespecting a Balinese temple took part in a ritual purification ceremony Thursday, after their antics sparked warnings that boorish tourists may be kicked off the Indonesian holiday island.

Indonesia's bustling tourist island Bali is set to go quiet with Internet service and flights temporarily halted for a "Day of Silence", while young people get ready to pucker up.

Incessant rains in Kerala have submerged the famous Shiva temple at Aluva, where thousands of people were expected to gather today for a religious ritual. The devotees were forced to perform the ritual, Bali Tharpanam, at temporary sheds put up by the state administration near the temple, 27 km from Kochi.

Thousands of people in Kerala today performed the 'bali tharpanam' ritual to propitiate departed souls on the auspicious occasion of 'Karkitaka vavu', the eve of the new moon of the last month of the Malayalam calendar. Devotees thronged river banks and seashores in the early hours to perform the annual ceremony to remember their ancestors and pray...

Thousands of people across the state today thronged holly rivers and beaches to take a dip and offer 'Vavu Bali',a ritual offering to please forefathers, on the day of vavu on Malayalam month Karkkadakom.Since early morning itself people from different parts of the district flocked the famous Parasurama Temple,Sankumugam beach here an...