Malaysian devotees mark Hindu festival with body piercing stunts Malaysian devotee Kumaraguru Kunalan is among a huge crowd of Malaysian Hindus who mark Thaipusam at a complex of temples outside Kuala Lumpur, as part of an annual Hindu festival which sees devotees carrying offerings to places of worship and piercing their skin with hooks and skewers to show devotion to the deity Murugan. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITESREFILE WITH CORRECTION TO LEAD