Hindu devotees perform their religious rites while walking towards the Sri Subramaniar Temple to make offerings during the Thaipusam festival at Batu Caves on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur on Jan 20, 2019.
The Hindu festival of Thaipusam, which commemorates the day when the goddess Parvati gave her son Lord Muruga an invincible lance with which he destroyed evil demons, is celebrated by some two million ethnic Indians in Malaysia and Singapore.