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Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu

Jun 07, 2025

Purisai: a village festival seeks the world stage

A photo story that takes us through the vibrant streets of a village in in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvannamalai district, where the famous Purisai Festival is held once every two years

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Author

Aayna

Aayna is a visual storyteller and a photographer at PARI.

Editor

Pratishtha Pandya

Pratishtha Pandya is a Senior Editor at PARI where she leads PARI's creative writing section. She is also a member of the PARIBhasha team and translates and edits stories in Gujarati. Pratishtha is a published poet working in Gujarati and English.

Photo Editor

Binaifer Bharucha

Binaifer Bharucha is a freelance photographer based in Mumbai, and Photo Editor at the People's Archive of Rural India.

Video Editor

Himanshu Chutia Saikia

Himanshu Chutia Saikia, currently based in Mumbai, is an independent documentary filmmaker, film editor and musician from Assam. He is a 2021 PARI Fellow.