Bhumata Brigade

The Pune-based womens rights activist Trupti Desai on Wednesday said she would go for offering prayers at Sabarimala temple on November 17, the day the hill shrine opens for the two-month annual pilgrim season.

Four activists of Bhumata Ranragini Brigade including its president Trupti Desai today allegedly assaulted Bhaben Saikia, arrested for the murder of a woman software professional at Infosys building, when he was being taken out of Shivajinagar court in Pune.

Rights activist Trupti Desai said today that she is the latest to be offered a spot on the popular reality television show "Bigg Boss". However, she said her participation will be dependent on whether the producers of the show change the male voiceover to a female one.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has agreed to meet Bhumata Brigade president Trupti Desai who had sought an audience with him demanding that women be allowed to become members of the outfit, however the meeting is not likely to be held anytime soon.

Rights activist Trupti Desai's efforts to enter Mumbai's Haji Ali dargah were foiled by policemen and locals this evening. The activist -- who had successfully campaigned against the ban on women entering the Maharashtra's Shani Shingnapur temple -- had planned to enter the dargah, one of the foremost Muslim shrines, which does not allow women in i...

Keeping up the campaign against gender bias at places of worship, around 150 women under the banner of Bhumata Brigade today left for the famous Trimbakeshwar temple in Nashik district in Maharashtra seeking to break the bar on female devotees at the inner sanctum of the Lord Shiva shrine.

The Pune-based womens rights activist Trupti Desai on Wednesday said she would go for offering prayers at Sabarimala temple on November 17, the day the hill shrine opens for the two-month annual pilgrim season.

Four activists of Bhumata Ranragini Brigade including its president Trupti Desai today allegedly assaulted Bhaben Saikia, arrested for the murder of a woman software professional at Infosys building, when he was being taken out of Shivajinagar court in Pune.

Rights activist Trupti Desai said today that she is the latest to be offered a spot on the popular reality television show "Bigg Boss". However, she said her participation will be dependent on whether the producers of the show change the male voiceover to a female one.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has agreed to meet Bhumata Brigade president Trupti Desai who had sought an audience with him demanding that women be allowed to become members of the outfit, however the meeting is not likely to be held anytime soon.

Rights activist Trupti Desai's efforts to enter Mumbai's Haji Ali dargah were foiled by policemen and locals this evening. The activist -- who had successfully campaigned against the ban on women entering the Maharashtra's Shani Shingnapur temple -- had planned to enter the dargah, one of the foremost Muslim shrines, which does not allow women in i...

Keeping up the campaign against gender bias at places of worship, around 150 women under the banner of Bhumata Brigade today left for the famous Trimbakeshwar temple in Nashik district in Maharashtra seeking to break the bar on female devotees at the inner sanctum of the Lord Shiva shrine.