Makarajyothi

• Sabarimala stampede revives debate about Makarajyoti

  Amid a debate over the truth of 'Makarajyoti', held as a divine light by millions of Ayyappa devotees, Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan said the Government was not going to probe whether it was a divine phenomenon or man-lit exercise as essentially the whole issue was a matter of faith for millions."The Government is neither going to consult ...

• The Sabarimala tragedy in 1999

  On January 14, 1999 at the Pampa Hill Top in Sabarimala, a stampede tragedy happened immediately after the sighting of the Makarajyothi, a bright light that the devotees consider divine, at Ponnambalamedu on the eastern part of the Ayyappa Sannidhanam, leaving 52 pilgrims dead and many others injured.The Justice T. Chandrashekhara Menon Commission ...