{"id":265173,"date":"2025-03-23T21:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T21:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/23\/some-devotees-protest-dress-code-enter-kerala-temple-wearing-shirts\/"},"modified":"2025-03-23T21:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T21:09:09","slug":"some-devotees-protest-dress-code-enter-kerala-temple-wearing-shirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/23\/some-devotees-protest-dress-code-enter-kerala-temple-wearing-shirts\/","title":{"rendered":"Some devotees protest dress code, enter Kerala Temple wearing shirts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-119389434,imgsize-560768.cms?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Some devotees protest dress code, enter Kerala Temple wearing shirts\" title=\"Some devotees protest dress code, enter Kerala Temple wearing shirts\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"7\"><a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/pathanamthitta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pathanamthitta<\/a>: A group of people entered a <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/lord-ayyappa-temple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lord Ayyappa temple<\/a> here on Sunday without removing their shirts, protesting against the long-standing practice that requires male devotees to do so before entering the shrine.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/dynamic_link.cms?msid=107107653&subsecid=1715249553&pos=toppotime:1-->Visuals showed protesters &#8211; members of the SNDP Samyuktha Samara Samithi &#8211; forming a queue in front of the shrine in <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/perunadu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Perunadu<\/a> managed by the Travancore Devaswom Board and offering prayers without removing their shirts.<\/p>\n<p>The protest went off without incident, as neither the police nor the temple management objected.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters later demanded a permanent end to the practice of requiring male devotees to remove their upper garments.<br \/><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:1--><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/some-devotees-protest-dress-code-enter-kerala-temple-wearing-shirts\/articleshow\/119389434.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pathanamthitta: A group of people entered a Lord Ayyappa temple here on Sunday without removing their shirts, protesting against the long-standing practice that requires male devotees to do so before entering the shrine. Visuals showed protesters &#8211; members of the SNDP Samyuktha Samara Samithi &#8211; forming a queue in front of the shrine in Perunadu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-119389434,imgsize-560768.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[6200,14320,39267,1199,2982,204062,204063,142039,204060,30192,204061,204059,204064,9724,19712,3183,5231],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265175,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265173\/revisions\/265175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}