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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 …