Every day of the year, thousands of pilgrims swarm into the sacred precincts of Kerala's Guruvayur temple. They come to seek the blessing of Lord Krishna, known locally as Guruvayurappan, a deity whose precious idol was, according to myth, originally worshipped by Lord Vishnu. Another belief states that the idol was eventually inherited by Lord Krishna and enshrined in Dwarka and that, Just before His death, he declared that it was to be re-installed in India's ...
