Tourists and expats join the Attukal Pongala festivities. The ceremony is usually exclusively confined to women.
Devotees throng the roads after offering pongala. This festival at Attukal has been entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest congregation of women in the world.
Corporation workers cleaning the city roads after the annual Attukal Pongala festival. The Pongala Mahotsavam is the most important festival of Attukal Bhagavathy Temple.
ADGP Sreelekha offering Pongala at the festival. The offering of Pongala is a special temple practice in Kerala.
An injured women is being taken by Health care workers to the hospital during the annual Attukal Pongala festival. The entire area of about 5 kilometre radius around temple emerges as a consecrated ground for observing Pongala rituals.
Devotees braved the scorching heat to offer Pongala. Several were hospitalised after fainting. It is a ten-day festival conducted in February-March and on the ninth day, the Pongala occurs.
A tourist family enjoys the Pongala festivities. More than 2.5 million women devotees assembled from different parts on the country.
The Kizhakekotta Poura Samithi's Pongala offering during the Attukal Pongala festival was to seek blessings for the ISRO's Mangalyaan Mission.
Officials at the Women's sub-jail at Attakulangara in the city take part in the Attukal Pongala festival.
A view of the free lunch organised by the Azhikota Poura Samithi near Sreevaraham during the Attukal Pongala.