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`Leave parangs, ceruts and kum kum at home'
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New Straits Times
01-19-2005
`Leave parangs, ceruts and kum kum at home'
Edition: Main/Lifestyle; 2*
Section: Nation
KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. - Leave your parangs, ceruts and kum kum at home.
This is the request from the Thaipusam organising committee to devotees attending the festival at Batu Caves here on Jan 25.
Sri Subramaniar Swamy temple president R. Nadarajah said those found carrying parangs, smoking ceruts or have their faces painted with kum kum will have their belongings seized and asked to leave the temple area.
"This is a religious function. Please don't act in a barbaric manner," he ...
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