Woman scribe makes failed bid to visit Sabarimala; Kerala observes strike

The New Delhi-based journalist of a US media house accompanied by a male colleague, a foreign national, was forced to make a descent back to Pamba on the foothills from Marakkoottam

A woman journalist made a brave but vain attempt on Thursday to trek to Sabarimala temple, while sporadic violence marked the strike called by Hindu Right groups in Kerala over Wednesday's police action against those opposing entry of women of menstrual age into the shrine.
 

By all available indications so far no girl or woman in the age group of 10 to 50 years has visited the shrine of the 'Naishtik Brahmachari', the eternally celibate deity, since the time the doors to the temple opened on Wednesday. 
 

The New Delhi-based journalist of a US media house accompanied by a male