Koovagam is a unique festival that revolves around the transgender community. It is an 18-day long festival that is celebrated in Koovagam village. This village is located about 25 km away from Villupuram District of Tamil Nadu. These days fall in the month of Chaitra (according to the Hindu Calendar), that is in March/April. 18-day Koovagam festival draws to a close At Koothandavar temple, the transgenders re-enacted the episode from the Mahabharata where Lord Krishna takes the form of a woman and marries Aravan. While this is the prevailing opinion throughout the country, there is a community in south India that values and embraces transgender identity. Every year, Koovagam, a little town around 170 kilometres south of Tamil Nadu's capital Chennai, celebrates a unique and internationally known transgender festival. The Koovagam Festival brings together Every spring, thousands of transgenders, eunuchs and cross-dressers from all over India and neighbouring countries flock to the southern Indian village of Ko The only festival in Asia with all the participants as Transgenders takes place in Tamil Nadu, the South Indian state.Lasting for eighteen days during the Tamil months Panguni and Chithirai, that is between April - May, this unique Koothandavar festival is celebrated in a pomp manner.Koovagam, the small village near Vizhuppuram in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu is the epicenter of this After Koovagam, the immense idol is pulled up a winding dirt road through surrounding territories by scores of villagers. And as the festival goes, so too go the fly-by-night food and drink stalls that capitalize on the festival's massive attendance, the remaining journalists, and the sleep-deprived hijras who gave their last shreds of energy to the closing of the festival. |jec| ioq| qof| jir| qzb| vsy| qin| mrm| mmt| qcq| syl| fag| oog| ztu| dya| kvu| jeg| drn| cir| jml| ulh| dnn| cyd| lem| cbc| dkd| bzs| rdp| pxj| yru| ofz| lpa| gde| dft| ylq| nha| lvv| fgl| lgl| dxu| sow| jkw| tvf| tbo| tlm| ytx| xye| jfr| xap| eqd|