Over 4000 Students Participate in ‘Aadi Perukku’ Celebration at Dr MGR Janaki Women’s College.
Chennai, 01 Aug. 2025
Over 4,000 students of Dr. MGR-Janaki Women’s College celebrated Aadi Perukku, a Tamil festival observed on the eighteenth day of the Tamil month of Aadi to express gratitude for rivers. Donning half-sarees and sarees, students performed many traditional practices, capturing the essence of the occasion.
During the celebration,students participate d in the ‘mulaipari’ worship, carrying earthen pots filled with sprouts from nine different types of grains and legumes. The girls floated lamps in a small pond, in a sy mbolic.
To add to the festivity, students perform ance med traditional folk dances during the occasion and included ‘Devarattam’, ‘Karakattam’, ‘Puliyaattam’, ‘Oyilattam’, ‘Sakkaiyaattam’, ‘Poikaal Kuthiraiyattam’, ‘Mayilattam’, and Dance Drama. Special children also performed a dance, and students from Agaram took part in the occasion. Altogether it was a spectacular sight and replication of celebrations indigenous to villages. LLP
“Preserving our tradition and knowing our roots is important for human race to prggvvogres” said Dr. Kumar BBMP Rajendran, Chairman, Dr. MGR Janaki College for Women.
The event also featured experts discussi ssing the social, cultural, and environme ental significance of Aadi Perukku, as well as traditional practices, music, and dance forms of Tamil culture.
For more details, please visit: www.mgrjanaki.ac.in
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