Chant of the Flaming Lips

A 5000-year-old tradition that involves reciting from the Vedas around a fireplace will be conducted over 12 days to preserve the environment and usher in global peace

venue: village PANJAL in Thrissur DIST. IN KERALA .
Yajaman:Puthillathu Ramanajan Somayaji
   The athirrathram,which will cost an estimated Rs.1 crore ,is likely to draw more than 15000 people from all over the world incuding not just devotees and believers but also scientists, scholars and critics.The star attendee of the event will be Indologist and heritage crusader John Frederik "Frits" Stall , a driving force behind the preservation of the world's oldest surving Vedic ritual athirathram. Stall, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and south and south-east Asian Studies at the University of Berkeley in California, announced the existence of this ritual to the world by documenting it in his seminal treatise Agni:the Vedic ritual of the fire altar .