Kartikai Deepam marks the conclusion of the 10 day long festival in the Tamil month of Kartikai (Scorpio), a festival that is marked by grand processions in which images of Annamalaiyaar and Unnamulaiyaal are taken out on decorated mounts, through the processional streets of Tiruvannamalai. Hundreds of thousands gather to celebrated Kartikai Deepam, where a huge lamp is lit on top of the Tiruvannamalai hill, symbolifying Shiva's appearance as a huge column of light, whose origins Bhramma and Vishnu were unable to trace. This article is a collection of images from the Kartikai Deepam festival of November 1997. This years Deepam falls on the 23rd of November.