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Women in Sabarimala: A blow on behalf of reason and constitutional rights

The mega-mass event will go down in India's contemporary history as a blow on the behalf of reason

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The wall will be formed between 4 pm and 4:15 pm, with participants taking a pledge to uphold gender equality

Badri Raina | The Wire
As per reports, two dedicated women of menstrual age – dedicated both to Lord Ayappa and the constitution of India – have succeeded in breaking the irrational taboo at Sabarimala by entering the sanctum sanctorum and offering their prayers to the deity.

Coming after the entry at Haji Ali Dargah, Shani Shingnapur and the delegitimisation of the practice of instant triple talaq, the breakthrough at Sabarimala crowns a year of concerted mass determination to obtain gender justice in the cultural-religious domain long granted by India’s constitutional democracy.

The hiatus between the determinations of the Supreme Court on behalf of the