Thousands of police have been deployed in the southern Indian state of Kerala as a centuries-old temple at the center of an ongoing, and sometimes violent, gender dispute prepares to open its ...

In September 2018, India’s Supreme Court ruled that a formal ban preventing girls and women between 10 and 50 years of age from entering the Kerala’s Sabarimala temple—or even climbing one ...

The standoff at Sabarimala temple sullies India’s progress on women’s rights. For months, there have been violent protests and riots over the entry of women at Sabarimala.

Policemen stand guard near the state secretariat anticipating protests following reports of two women of menstruating age entering the Sabarimala temple, one of the world’s largest Hindu ...

Hindus chant devotional songs during a protest against reports of two women of menstruating age entering the Sabarimala temple, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. R S Iyer/AP ...

The new temple, built on a traditional architectural method with brass roof-top, was consecrated by thantri Kandararu Rajivaru between 11am and noon. SABARIMALA: The newly-built ‘Navagraha ...

An online poll by an Indian newspaper found 52.6 percent of respondents believe the Supreme Court's order to allow women of all ages inside the Sabarimala temple interferes with tradition.

One of the two women who made history in India earlier this month by becoming the first of “menstruating age” to enter the Sabarimala temple in the southern state of Kerala has been assaulted ...