{"id":307685,"date":"2019-01-02T06:09:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T06:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307685"},"modified":"2019-01-02T06:09:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T06:09:38","slug":"sabarimala-temple-shut-for-purification-rituals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sabarimala-temple-shut-for-purification-rituals\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabarimala Temple shut for purification rituals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-304437 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Sabarimala-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Sabarimala-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Sabarimala-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Sabarimala-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Sabarimala-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Sabarimala.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sabarimala Temple was shut on Wednesday for purification rituals after two\u00a0women below 50 claimed to have entered the temple at 3.45 AM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The &#8216;purification&#8217; rituals would continue for an hour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bindu and Kanakdurga in their 40s are the first to enter the Sabarimala temple after the Supreme Court had last year lifted the ban on entry of women of all ages to offer prayers at the shrine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, the women had earlier tried to offer prayers in the month of December but had been blocked by massive protests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile, Chief Minister of Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan has issued standing orders to police to provide all possible protection to any woman who wants to enter the shrine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Protests were held against the state government&#8217;s decision to implement the Supreme Court verdict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Over a dozen women made unsuccessful attempts to offer prayers at the temple.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sabarimala Temple was shut on Wednesday for purification rituals after two\u00a0women below 50 claimed to have entered the temple at 3.45 AM. The &#8216;purification&#8217; rituals would continue for an hour. Bindu and Kanakdurga in their 40s are the first to enter the Sabarimala temple after the Supreme Court had last year lifted the ban on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2196,2072,2014],"tags":[466,3926],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307686,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307685\/revisions\/307686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}