“Kollamo (is it good)?” asks Sujatha (name changed) as I clean up the soft idlis, tangy sambar and chutney on my plate. We are at the food unit-cum-kitchen of the Women’s Prison and Correctional Home at Attakkulangara in Thiruvananthapuram. “The chutney has sautéed tomato, onion and chillies,” Sujatha adds, as another inmate passes a plate […]
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Devotees offering Pongala Hindu Society of central Florida in the US. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT It is that time of the year when thousands of women from India and abroad congregate for the annual festival of the Attukal Bhagavathy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram. Today (on February 25), the heart of the city turns into a […]
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Thousands of women devotees offering Pongala during Attukal Pongala ritual in Thiruvananthapuram on March 7, 2023 | Photo Credit: MAHINSHA S Women devotees have lit tens of thousands of makeshift brick hearths across the State capital with the fire of the ‘Pandara Aduppu’ at the Attukal Bhagavathy Temple shortly after 10.30 a.m., signalling the start […]
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Thousands of devotees waiting for the darshan at the Attukal Bhagavaty Temple in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday. | Photo Credit: Mahinsha S In a short while from now, cooking smoke will rise from countless makeshift ovens on the streets of Thiruvananthapuram as women devotees make the annual Pongala offering to the presiding deity of the Attukal […]
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Earthen pots with prices ranging from ₹25 to ₹200 have arrived in the city for the Attukal Pongala. Pots kept for sale at Attakulangara in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday. | Photo Credit: S. Mahinsha The Food Safety department will press a mobile laboratory into service during the Attukal Pongala festival in the city to carry out […]
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