The Indian airport that halts flights for a divine procession

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Ashraf Padanna

Thiruvananthapuram

Nikita Yadav

BBC News, Delhi

Vivek Nair Men wearing a white cloth around their waist carrying idols decked in flowers and ornaments at an airport runway — Devotees pull ornate wooden chariots bearing temple idols along a 2km-stretch of the airport’s runway

For a few hours on a warm April day, jets paused and silence reclaimed the…

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