Reel Name: Thread Changing Festival
Reel Notes: Thread Changing (Yajnopavitra) Festival of Tamil Brahmins
Date of Exposure: August 2001
Keywords: thread,  full moon,  

Thread Changing Festival
	At the Annual Thread Changing Ceremony
The Sashtang Namaskar
	Portrait of a Shaivite Brahmin
Tamil Brahmins Gathered for Spiritual Renewal Brahmins gathered for a thread changing ceremony
	Showing Respects to the Brahmin
At the Annual Thread Changing Ceremony
	A South Indian Brahmin A Tamil Brahmin going over the scriptures while running an errand
Preparing of the Banana Prasadam The Yajnopavita or thread changing ceremony, Bangalore, 2001

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