“We were not allowed to cook meat or fish on the temple premises, that’s all,” Mohsin said. (Representational image by Shutterstock)An Odisha village sheltered two Muslim migrant labourers from Bengal on the premises of a Hindu temple for well over a month during the lockdown, citing the obligations of “humanity”. “We were not allowed to cook meat or fish on the temple premises, that’s all,” Mohsin said. Then Santosh Kumar Jena, a local businessman, learnt of their plight and offered them a room on the local Saraswati temple’s compound. “The room (on the temple premises) remains unused for most of the year.

Source: The Telegraph May 30, 2020 23:26 UTC