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Sabarimala temple, India -- There I was, one of tens of thousands of people, mostly men, trudging barefoot uphill to the Sabarimala temple. Monkeys screeched as they swung along the branches above. I silently cursed the bathroom slippers that I had worn for the occasion and prayed that my cover as a tourist would hold.

The court decision set up a clash between devout Hindus and women rights activists. Women are permitted to enter most Hindu temples and activists argued that the restrictions at Sabarimala reflected an old belief that menstruating women are impure.

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The main road was not safe anymore, with rumours of angry devotees attacking media and official vehicles, so we spent the next few hours at a fuel station along with a police party. Luckily, it had good internet and we could send photos and text to our editors.

While Arun left for the temple really early next morning, I had to wait to file a story on the shutdown. Our driver, like some others in nearby hotels, refused to leave the safety of the parking lot. The streets and roads were all deserted. It was like a curfew. I had some 60 kilometers to cover to get to Pamba and there wasn't a single vehicle on the road.

Kumar, like everyone else that morning, asked me why I was risking my safety in the curfew-like region. Having learned my lesson from the first roadblock experience, I told him, like I would all others, that I was a tourist and wanted to visit the temple with a friend who was already there.

Instead of taking me straight to the bus terminal for pilgrims heading to the temple, he first took me to the nearby protest where a few hundred men were chanting Ayyappa mantras and marching on a deserted street.

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While the Sabarimala temple in Kerala was in the eye of the storm last week as protests raged against allowing women of menstruating age into the sanctum sanctorum, the Vavar mosque remained peaceful as ever.

The famed Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala opened to devotees Saturday morning after remaining closed for over six months due to the coronavirus pandemic, with a few worshippers wearing masks and carrying Covid-19 negative certificate offering prayers.

This is the first time since March 25, when a nationwide lockdown came into force, that pilgrims are being allowed to offer prayers at the hill shrine, which opened at 5 am, sources in the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB), which manages the temple, said.

As many as 246 people have booked through the virtual queue system for darshan on Saturday. Each day only 250 people will be allowed inside the temple. The usual rush of devotees was missing this time.

Devotees will be advised to keep their mobile phones switched off and those who use a mobile phone at the temple premises will be initially warned and stringent actions like the seizure of phones would be initiated against repeated violators, N Vasu, president of the Travancore Devaswom Board that manages the temple, told DH.

Recently, there were instances of some devotees taking a video of the sanctum sanctorum and the main deity and posting it on the social media. The Devaswom Ombudsman, Justice P R Raman, who visited Sabarimala temple recently to oversee facilities for pilgrims, had also suggested a strict ban on mobile phone use at the temple premises citing instances of pictures of temple sanctum sanctorum being posted by pilgrims on social media.

Mr. Vasu said that instances of pilgrims using phones near the sanctum sanctorum and causing inconvenience to other pilgrims were also noticed. Hence it was decided to strictly enforce a ban on mobile phone use in the temple premises. In order to enforce the ban, security personal will advice the pilgrims near the entrance of the temple to switch off their phones. Loudspeaker announcements on mobile phone ban would be also made

A ban was imposed on mobile phone use at all temples under the Travancore Devaswom Board, including Sabarimala temple, about a year ago. But it was not being enforced strictly, said the TDB president.

The Sabarimala Lord Ayyappa temple will reopen today i.e. on 17 October 5 pm for 'Thula Masam' pooja, The Travancore Devaswom website has stated. The Travancore Board is an autonomous body constituted under the Travancore Cochin Hindu Religious Institutions Act XV of 1950.

As per the Sabarimala Ayyappa Seva Samajam (SAASS), the temple will reopen again for Sree Chithra Atta Thirunal pooja from 10 and 11 November while for Mandala Pooja Maholsavam from 16 November to 27 December.

Marking the beginning of a two-month-long annual pilgrimage season, the doors of the Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala opened for the annual Mandalam-Makaravilakku festival on Thursday. Temple chief priest Kandararu Mahesh Mohanararu opened the sanctum sanctorum in the absence of the outgoing head priest K. Jayaraman Namboothiri. This was followed by the opening of the Upadevata temples and transferring of the scared fire to the Aazhi.

Meanwhile, the opening day of the season began on a positive note with the hill temple witnessing a heavy rush of pilgrims. The pilgrims, who had begun camping at Pampa from Wednesday evening despite the heavy showers, were allowed to the hilltop from Thursday afternoon. The two-month-long season, which used to attract millions of devotees every year till the pandemic outbreak in 2019-20 season, returned to full vigour last season with the lifting of restrictions.

Shajila Ali Fathim, a cameraperson working with Kairali TV, was repeatedly attacked and abused allegedly by protesting BJP workers after two women entered the revered Sabarimala temple early on Wednesday morning.

Shajila was photographed with tears in her eyes and still holding up her camera to shoot the protests in Thiruvananthapuram as the state boiled over the women of menstruating age entering the temple that has traditionally banned their entry.

A 55-year-old man, who was seriously injured when CPI (M) workers hurled stones at protesters from atop their party office at Pandalam in Pathanamthitta district, died late Wednesday night.Also Read | Sabarimala protests: Activist succumbs to injuries, Kerala on edge after 2 women enter templeAlso Watch | Arson after women entering Sabarimala temple justified?Published By: Sanchari ChatterjeePublished On: Jan 3, 2019--- ENDS ---

As per the new decision, a maximum of 2000 devotees would be allowed to have darshan at the hill temple on weekdays and 3000 on Saturdays and Sundays, which was 1,000 and 2,000 earlier respectively, state Devaswom Minister Kadakampally Surendran said.

The department, on Monday, began the testing at Sannidhanam (temple complex) and Pamba, the base camp, for all categories of employees and volunteers serving at the shrine and its premises for more than 14 days, official sources said. 2351a5e196