Triple joy with joint festivals


Watch your back: Children ‘battling it out’ as they spray one another with toy water guns during the annual Songkran festival at the Wat Chaiya Mangalaram Temple in Burmah Lane, Penang.

GEORGE TOWN: Three major festivals – Songkran, Tamil New Year and Vaisakhi – add an air of festivity to the general election activities throughout the country.

Songkran heralds the Thai New Year while the Tamil New Year and Vaisakhi are ushered in by the Tamils and Sikhs, respectively.

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