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The harvest season's celebrated in Kerala as Makar Jyoti and every year the largest gathering of devotees at Sabarimala is seen this time around. Here is a look at what keeps this pilgrimage - which has also made it to the Guinness Book of World Records - going.

ANIMAL INGREDIENTS: This is not the first time that cleanliness has come under scanner.

What's crawling in Sabarimala kitchen

Spiders and cockroaches have been found in ghee that is used to prepare prasadam distributed to devotees.

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HINT OF CONSPIRACY: The findings of the team investigating the defiling of the temple point to a conspirancy.

Temple row plot to defame Thantri

The findings of the team probing the defiling of Sabarimala points to a conspiracy to defame the Thantri.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/temple-row-plot-to-defame-thantri/22554-3.html

ON SABARIMALA: Well-known author Anita Nair feels that there is not much reason for women to go to Sabarimala.

Writer for customs of Sabarimala

Anita Nair feels that it is better to keep the traditions and customs in the case of the Lord Ayappa shrine.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/writer-for-customs-of-sabarimala/19133-3.html

DIVINE TENSION: While supporting the entry of women in Sabarimala temple, LDF says it is against discrimination on gender basis.

Allow women in Sabarimala: Minister

State Devaswom Minister says the Kerala Government is not opposed to allowing women into Sabarimala temple.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/allow-women-in-sabarimala-minister/18940-4.html

RHYTHM DIVINE: Rajivaru takes over as tanthri at a time when the Lord Ayyappa temple in the eye of controversies.

New thantri takes over in Sabarimala

Kandararu Rajivaru took over as the thantri of the Sabarimala temple on the New Year day of the Malayalam calendar.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/new-thantri-takes-over-in-sabarimala/18768-3.html

DIVINE INTERVENTION: The thantri

Sabarimala row turns murkier

The Sabarimala controversy turns murkier as the police arrests three women for allegedly supplying call girls.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/sabarimala-row-turns-murkier/17554-3.html

CHAOTIC ROLE: After Jaimala

Untouchability charge against Sabarimala

The actress made the "revelation" in a letter to an astrologer who said the deity had been defiled by the touch.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/untouchability-charge-against-sabarimala/16600-3.html

SABARIMALA SACRILEGE: Women are not being allowed to even climb up the hill leading to the shrine.

Sabarimala shuts doors on women

Sabarimala temple is opening to the public for the first time since the controversy involving Jayamala erupted.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/sabarimala-shuts-doors-on-women/15748-3.html

CLEANSING ACT: The purification process began on Thursday in the Guruvayoor temple.

Sabarimala temple cleansing begins

Rituals begin to purify hill shrine after Kannada actor's claim that she entered temple and touched bachelor deity.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/sabarimala-temple-cleansing-begins/15568-3.html

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