Women Barred From Temple

A video allegedly showing a group of women from the Valmiki community being denied entry to a temple in the western Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district is being investigated by the police

The Delhi Parsi Anjuman (DPA) has told the Delhi High Court that barring women from entering the Fire Temple during their period of menstruation is done with the purpose of protecting the consecrated fire.

Another woman in the "barred" age group made a futile attempt to reach Sabarimala today, but was forced to retreat by agitated protesters, while security was tightened at the shrine amid reports that more women of menstruating age could try to visit the temple before its doors close tonight. Bindu, a Dalit activist, who was proceeding to Pamba at t...

There is, especially to those who care about individual rights, something disturbing about this entire process. The "tradition" that bars many women from entering the temple is not of any great age, but even so, it has settled into the complex of beliefs held by worshippers of the temple's deity, Ayyappa.

Amid campaigns against ban on women from entering the 'chauthara' of Shani Shingnapur shrine and certain restrictions for them at Haji Ali dargah in Mumbai, famous Trimbakeshwar temple in Maharashtra has also come into spotlight for bar on female devotees offering prayers in the inner sanctum.

Government authorities and temple officials in Kerala state are standing firmly by a decades-old tradition of banning women from one of the holiest Hindu temples after the Supreme Court questioned the temple's right to bar women.

A temple in Ambala has stopped the entry of women because the priests believe women practice black magic inside the temple. More shockingly, the women of the area are divided over this and with some even supporting it.Kawaljit Kaur who used to come to the temple every morning is furious and says, "I don't understand why they have done this. They sh...

A video allegedly showing a group of women from the Valmiki community being denied entry to a temple in the western Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district is being investigated by the police

The Delhi Parsi Anjuman (DPA) has told the Delhi High Court that barring women from entering the Fire Temple during their period of menstruation is done with the purpose of protecting the consecrated fire.

Another woman in the "barred" age group made a futile attempt to reach Sabarimala today, but was forced to retreat by agitated protesters, while security was tightened at the shrine amid reports that more women of menstruating age could try to visit the temple before its doors close tonight. Bindu, a Dalit activist, who was proceeding to Pamba at t...

There is, especially to those who care about individual rights, something disturbing about this entire process. The "tradition" that bars many women from entering the temple is not of any great age, but even so, it has settled into the complex of beliefs held by worshippers of the temple's deity, Ayyappa.

Amid campaigns against ban on women from entering the 'chauthara' of Shani Shingnapur shrine and certain restrictions for them at Haji Ali dargah in Mumbai, famous Trimbakeshwar temple in Maharashtra has also come into spotlight for bar on female devotees offering prayers in the inner sanctum.

Government authorities and temple officials in Kerala state are standing firmly by a decades-old tradition of banning women from one of the holiest Hindu temples after the Supreme Court questioned the temple's right to bar women.

A temple in Ambala has stopped the entry of women because the priests believe women practice black magic inside the temple. More shockingly, the women of the area are divided over this and with some even supporting it.Kawaljit Kaur who used to come to the temple every morning is furious and says, "I don't understand why they have done this. They sh...