Navi Mumbai: Nerul base Ayyappa Temple, a revered spiritual center known for its serene sanctity, has commenced an elaborate program of Renovation, Restoration, Rejuvenation, Sahasra Kalasham, and ...

Tamil Nadu CM Stalin won`t attend the Global Ayyappa Summit due to prior commitments. Two ministers will represent him.

The Pandya dynasty, which was ousted by Thirumala Naicker the ruler of the Pandya Empire spanning Madurai, Thiruveneli and Ramanathapuram resided in places such as Valliyur, Tenkasi, Shengottah and ...

Kerala’s CPI(M) government, long known for rationalism, now borrows faith to host a Global Ayyappa Sangamam—a dramatic bid to undo the wounds of the 2018 Sabarimala storm. Stalin skips, BJP revolts, ...

India, April 5 -- It has been nearly two decades since the Indian Young Lawyers Association filed a Public Interest ...

Lord Ayyappa, the deity of the Sabarimala temple, “is very popular with the third sex”, asserts Viraj Shah in her book, Meaning and Myths of Icons. Ayyappa, who is believed to protect the cosmos from ...

Very often, in South Indian temples nowadays, you see men wearing black clothes, unshaven, doing their worship. In some temples, you also see coconuts and palm seeds kept in urns, the old ‘para’, ...

KOCHI: At Sabarimala, the god Ayyappa resides in majestic isolation. As Dharma Sastha, the eternal celibate, he is generous in the benediction he confers on thousands of mostly male pilgrims who trek ...