It is about lighting lamps, making avul, which isn't my favourite dish. Appam is more up my street. Anyway, my wife and mother wouldn't let my lack of taste for it to stand in the way of preparing avul, because rituals stipulate that there can be no Krithikai without avul.
Mother, enthusiastic about going by the rule book, parked herself in our kitchen to monitor the proceedings. She takes an active interest in observing rituals on any festive occasion.
You can spot the special dishes in the foreground set up as offerings to the deity.
Earthern lamps being lit for placing them around the house.
Lamps placed in front of potted tulsi on the balcony of mother's bed-room.
Carrying a trayful to be placed outside the front-door.
Placing the lamps at the door-step of our third-floor apartment.
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