India News | Edited by Debjani Chatterjee (With inputs from agencies) | Monday April 23, 2018
For the first time in 400 years, men were allowed to touch the five idols in Ma Panchubarahi temple in Odisha's Kendrapara district. The temple is a no entry zone for men; only Dalit women are allowed to perform the rituals and touch the deities. On April 20, women priests let five men enter the temple to relocate the deities, as rising sea levels ...
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