Kathirkaamam festival postponed, pilgrims on foot from Jaffna stranded midway

Kathirkaamam festival postponed, pilgrims on foot from Jaffna stranded midway

Saivaites in the country of Eezham Tamils have expressed deep concern over the sudden change of dates of the annual festival of the Kathirkaamam Murukan Koyil this year without any notice to them. Hundreds of Saiva devotees who are on foot pilgrimage that commenced last month from Jaffna Chella Channithi Murugan Koyil via districts of Killinochchi and Mullaithivu to reach Kathirkaamam on the day of flag hoisting that was to take place on July 8 have been stranded in midway in the districts of Trincomalee and Batticaloa with the announcement of the new dates by the Kathirkaamam Koyil administration that is now exclusively Sinhala-Buddhist.