Thiruvananthapuram, March 3 (IANS) As lakhs of women converged on Thiruvananthapuram for the famed Attukal Pongala festival, Palayam which is located in the heart of the state capital city and is a modest but symbolically powerful junction, quietly reaffirmed Kerala’s culture of coexistence.Within a few metres of one another stand the Palayam Juma Masjid, the St. Joseph’s Cathedral and the Palayam Mahaganapathy Temple, a rare streetscape that has long embodied the city’s plural ethos.At the …
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Thiruvananthapuram, March 3 (IANS) The city on Tuesday transformed into a vast expanse of devotion as lakhs of women gathered for the annual Pongala at the Attukal Bhagavathy Temple, turning Kerala’s capital into a sea of flickering hearths.From the temple courtyard, makeshift brick stoves stretched for over 10 kilometres, lining roads and bylanes as the city morphed into a giant yagashala.Devotees from across Kerala and beyond arrived through the night, united in chants invoking Attukal Amma….