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They don't care about Sabarimala: Achuthan Nair Padmakumar

Achuthan Nair Padmakumar, closely associated with Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, speaks to Jeemon Jacob about managing the temple through this period of intense angst.

Earlier this month, the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB), administrators of the Sabarimala temple, and a thousand other temples, reversed its previous stance and sided with the state government, telling the Supreme Court it had no objection to girls and women between the ages of 10 and 50 entering the

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