PENANG: For the past three months, V.M. Thuraisingham has been working painstakingly on a styrofoam statue of Hanuman (Hindu monkey deity) for this year’s Thaipusam festival.
The 50-year-old religious altar maker said he would be carrying the 2.25m-high statue mounted on a steel frame from the Sree Maha Mariamman Temple in Queen Street to the Arulmigu Balathandayuthapani Temple at Waterfall Road on Thursday.
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