Radhakrishnan Kuttoor
SABARIMALA
The Hindu, January 3, 2008
A recently evolved custom of abandoning clothes in the
Pampa by pilgrims, mostly from Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka returning
after darshan at the Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala, is causing pollution
at the foothills, affecting normal flow of the river.
Workers
from Tamil Nadu collecting clothes abandoned in the river to sell them
at Rs.2 to 5 to contractors...