 Tamils and Punjabis settled in Malaysia are celebrating the Tamil New Year and Vaisakhi on Thursday.
The Punjabi community, estimated at over 100,000, have begun the customary three days of non-stop recital of scriptures from the Guru Granth Sahib, the holy text of the Sikhs at gurdwaras nationwide.
At the Gurdwara Sahib in Sentul, some 3,000 people attended the prayers that began Tuesday.
Besides Sikhs celebrating Vaisakhi, the New Year festival is observed on a large scale by the Tamils, who form a bulk of Malaysia's 2.1 million ethnic Indian communities that is eight percent of the multi-racial 28 million populations.
Cleaning of their homes was followed by elaborate offerings of fruits and flowers to the deities at temples in the national capital's Lebuh Apang, Brickfields and Masjid India areas.
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