Shrine workers may keep their underwear on (Reuters)

Hindu pilgrims queue outside the Sabarimala Temple to offer prayers to the Hindu deity 'Ayappa', about 70 kms (43 miles) west of the town Pathanamthtta in the southern Indian state of Kerala, on January 15, 2003. (Dipak Kumar/Reuters) Reuters - Employees counting donations at a popular Hindu shrine in southern India will no longer have to take off their underpants at work after the local human rights commission intervened.