Float festival to commence on January 13

The Annual Teppam festival (Float festival) of the Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple here will begin with the flag hoisting ceremony on January 13.
According to a temple release today, the ceremony would be held between 10:05 am and 10:29 AM.
The ceremonial feeding of sugarcane to the 'rock elephant' would be held on January 15.
The teppam festival would be held on January 24 when idols of Goddess Meenakshi and Lord Sundareswarar and Piriyavidai Amman would be taken around the tank thrice.
Stephen DaCosta, Principal Frank Anthony Public School
said students from India had participated in IFLC editions in Indonesia, Morocco and Australia.

After the performance in Delhi, the students are set to visit Agra on the invitation of the Uttar Pradesh government.

Students participate in the festival are selected through arts and music coordinators of the EET, which hopes to host the festival in other states in the country soon.
"Previous editions of the IFLC have been held in 20 countries namely, ALgeria, Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Krygystan, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Netherlands, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Senegal, South Africa, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, USA and north Iraq," Acikgoz said.
Launched in Turkey in 2003, nearly 2000 students attended the IFLC festival held in 145 countries last year.