In her Facebook post, Mansiya said her dance programme was slated to be held at the Koodalmanikyam Temple in Thrissur district on April 21. Mansiya, a PhD research scholar in Bharatanatyam, had earlier faced the ire and boycott of Islamic clerics for being a performing artiste of classical dance forms despite being born and brought up as a Muslim.
A Bharatanatyam dancer was barred from performing in a temple in Kerala's Thrissur. The temple authorities said a non-Hindu cannot perform inside the compound of the Koodalmanikyam temple.
Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The government gave permission to organise a slew of festivals including Thrissur Pooram ahead of the assembly polls eyeing votes without taking note of the possible rise in Covid cases after the elections.
Interestingly, the decision has resulted in Sree Koodalmanikyam temple in Irinjalakuda organising last year’s cancelled 11-day festival and this year’s festival in less than a month.
With the pandemic situation changing and test positivity rate rising, health officials have warned that if these festivals are organised without adhering to the protocol, the state would witness a sharp surge in cases.
A senior officer at the Directorate of Health Services, on condition of anonymity, said, “The administrative permission for festivals like Thrissur Pooram was given without even asking the medical reports or assessing the ground realities. During the last week of March, the test positivity in Thrissur was a mere 1.81 per cent which