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About this Painting
The flag rises. The crowd roars. The Chithirai festival has begun.
The flag hoisting ceremony of the Chithirai Thiruvizha — the great Tamil festival celebrated at the Temple in Tamil Nadu every April — is one of the most magnificent and sacred spectacles in all of Tamil Nadu. Thousands of devotees gather as the temple flag is raised to the sky, marking the beginning of a festival It is a moment of collective joy, devotion, and Tamil pride that has been repeated for centuries and never loses its power.
Artist Sathya N Prabhu captures this extraordinary scene with the energy, colour, and classical figurative depth that defines her practice. Chithirai Thiruvizha Flag Hoisting is a painting that holds the electricity of that moment — the flag unfurling, the crowd below, the ancient temple rising behind it all. It is a painting about the festivals that remind a people who they are.
A painting about the moment the flag goes up — and an entire civilisation looks skyward together.
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