These are more pictures from the first day of Thrissur Pooram. The last photo is during the main ceremony, where two lines of elephants, with about 300,000 people between them, face off in front of the Sri Vadakkunathan Temple. The guys on top then switch parasols dozens of times over the course of an hour, with drummers and horn players blasting away the whole time. It is called the Elanjithara Melam.
As you'll notice, the elephant in the first picture has no one riding it. He and another elephant had what a newspaper described as "a tiff," injuring 15 people and sending hundreds running. The elephant's name is either Nayarambalam Rajasekharan or Thiruvambady Unnikrishnan (I can never tell those two apart).
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