Nallur festival on Aug 15

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By N. Parameshwaran

The annual Nallur Hindu Temple festival in Jaffna will take place on 15 August, organizers told Daily Mirror online. The historic festival draws devotees from around the island as well as overseas.

Meanwhile the festival organizers added that strict dress code guidelines will be in place for devotees entering the temple during the festival. Men will not be permitted to wear jeans into the Temple while women must wear a toe length dress or saree.

Thousands of Hindu devotees are expected to attend the festival, the second to be held following the end of the war in May last year. (Daily Mirror online)

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Comments - 11

Faqi Saturday, 17 July 2010 07:27 AM

Do the Gods really care how people are dressed. The Gods must have made a mistake when they created humans, to create them naked i.e without clothing. What is so wrong in a pair of jeans?

I Love SL Saturday, 17 July 2010 07:53 AM

strict dress code!!!!! What is happening to our people?

alex Saturday, 17 July 2010 08:30 AM

Each cumminity have their own culture, mostly represented by their traditional dresses and strictly followed in some perticular places.nothing to blame anybody

Serenity Saturday, 17 July 2010 08:46 AM

Places of worship have their respective dress codes. People who cant respect it, don't need to be there.

I Love SL Saturday, 17 July 2010 11:13 AM

Place of worship doesn’t need dress code, its need people with the pure hart and peace in there mind

jaya Saturday, 17 July 2010 11:55 AM

to develop the peace in mind pure heart need calm environment not arousing for that we need dress code

Nemeon Saturday, 17 July 2010 05:03 PM

Religion and Culture must be protected at all costs. This is a good move.

Man B Saturday, 17 July 2010 05:20 PM

please follow the rules.normally Jaffna People know about the Kovil.

AhA Saturday, 17 July 2010 09:20 PM

Just because god created you naked, why don't you roam around naked?

raj Saturday, 17 July 2010 11:42 PM

I Love SL,

I agree with you. Like you I do not judge people based on the dress. Practically, how we dress has an impact on us, and others who see us!

KD Sunday, 18 July 2010 05:16 AM

It's very simple. Don't come, If you cannot follow the dress code. It has nothing to do with judging people by what they wear. It's about respecting the culture and tradition.

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