Karthikai Deepam is a Hindu specially Hindu Tamils and HinduTelugu festival. The festival is observed in every home and every temple, and falls in the month of Krttikai (mid-November to mid-December) as per Tamil Calendar. This occurs on the day when the moon is in conjunction with the constellation Karthigai (Pleiades) and purnimai. This constellation appears as a group of six stars in the firmament in the shape of a pendant from the ear.
Many legends and lyrical poetry have grown round this star. The six stars are considered in Indian mythology as the six celestial nymphs who reared the six babies in the saravana tank which later were joined together to form the six faced Muruga. He is therefore called Karthikeya, the one brought up by the Karthigai nymphs. Houses and streets are lit up with rows of oil lamps (Deepam) in the evening of the festival day.
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We from Tamil Section would like to wish all our members a beautiful Deepam Karthigai. May this Deepam illuminate the hearts and minds of our brethren with the Grace and Light of the God
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