The SC bench has adjourned the matter for the next 10 days as the concerned parties have requested for four weeks time to submit their responses on the plea.

Sabarimala temple priests closed down the temple to perform purification rituals after two women of menstruating age managed to enter the temple and offered their prayers, on Wednesday. Once again, it proves that their resistance in allowing women of menstruating age inside the temple stems from the belief that they are impure. No matter if […]

Women in Kerala formed 620 kilometre long human chain called Vanitha Mathil or Women’s Wall to push for gender equality. The state-sponsored event saw women from all walks of life holding each other’s hands and standing by the side of the national highways across all 14 districts in Kerala. Photographs of this event, which saw […]

Smriti Irani’s comments on carrying blood-soaked pads into a temple have added further fuel to the raging Sabarimala issue. The Union Textile Minister was speaking at the Young Thinkers’ Conference, when the conversation veered to government’s stand on the Supreme Court’s Sabarimala verdict. On this, she said, “I am nobody to speak on the Supreme […]

Malayalam actor Kollam Thulasi’s threat has exposed how badly patriarchy wants to keep women outside the Sabarimala temple. According to The Indian Express, Thulasi was attending an event organised by temple stakeholders and the BJP-led agitators. It was there that he said that women who enter the Sabarimala temple should be “torn into two pieces.” He further […]

The Supreme Court’s five-member bench today heard the petitions on the Sabarimala Temple case. The Kerala temple trust prohibits entry of women aged 10-50 years in the inner sanctum. After hearing a few petitions, the bench headed by CJI Dipak Misra said woman have a constitutional right to pray and it does not depend on […]