Thaipusam Panthal Setup - Penang
It has been almost a week after Thaipusam, and I’ve still not updated anything into my blog yet. Sorry guys, I was really busy setting up Thaneer Panthal on behalf of Indian Makals of company “xyz” and had tons of work after my holidays. Curios to know how to setup a panthal? Great.
OK, let me start…we begin our panthal setup mission on 19th January 2008, Saturday. So we had exactly 3 and a half days to erect the panthal. This was the shortest time we had in my 6 years experience setting up a thaneer panthal. For your info, we have to make the panthal ready to serve the devotees before the ratham or chariot passes by on the evening of Thaipusam eve. So what to do, by hook or crook we have to get it done. But even before this we had lots of meeting and discussion prior to panthal setup.
Oooops, forgot something…guys, in order to setup a thaneer panthal, the first thing you must have is MONEY!!!MONEY!!! and MONEY!!! No MONEY, No TALK. Money for some panthal is fully aided by their respective companies, some partially and some are not at all. Thus, we were very unfortunate. For our panthal case, our company didn’t even spend a single penny. So in order to get the money we need to collect donations among employees. Not everyone can do that, you really need a trustworthy and devoted person to lead the collection. Here we were very lucky to have Saradevi akka as our treasurer. She really attracts money. Thousands of thanks to you akka.
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