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This temple in Kasaragod remains shut for three years after 'untouchables' demand dignity -George Poikayil

-The New Indian Express

More than eight decades after the Temple Entry Proclamation, the untouchables' cannot take the 18-step stairway to the temple or directly drop money in the offertory plate!

SWARGA (Kasaragod): Shri Jatadhari 'Devasthanam' (abode of god) is nestled in the middle of arecanut plantations of Brahmins. There is no motorable road to reach the centuries-old place of worship and devotees have to walk around 200m along the perennial Badiyar stream to reach the abode of Jatadhari - a fearsome incarnation of Lord Shiva -- and believed to be the guardian spirit of Swarga in Padre village of Enmakaje gram panchayat.

Despite the 'Devasthanam' being the centre of village life, it remains shut for the past three years. "The upper castes of the village locked our Jatadhari and the Devasthanam because we dared to question the discriminatory customs practised here," said Krishna Mohana, 45, a former state-level badminton player and member of the Moger community. The Moger or Mugera is a Scheduled Caste community at the bottom of the caste hierarchy in the village, along with the Koraga, a particularly vulnerable tribe.

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