In the year 1989, a few days before the start of the Mandalam-Makaravilakku festival (that takes place across the globe every year in the winter months of November and December - which incidentally is the period when devotees voluntarily observe austerities and abstain from cardinal pleasures before undertaking their pilgrimage to the famous Sabarimala Temple on the Western Ghats of Kerala), a few devotees got together and organized a one-day…