In Tiruchendur, HC ruling on ‘unauthorised Iyers’ fleshes out an old divide among priests
For Easwara Iyer, doing pujas at the Tiruchendur temple is a natural right bestowed on him since it is his traditional occupation. They are his source of livelihood too – actually, his only source. But what he and 300 other poojaris consider as their right is in jeopardy after the Madras High...