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HINDU DEITIES AND GENDER
'Difficult to declare millions of beliefs wrong': SC hears PIL limits in Sabarimala case debateThe Supreme Court is examining the permissibility of public interest litigations concerning religious practices. A nine-judge bench is hear...- Whose rituals, whose rights? Sabarimala U-turn exposes the tension between tradition, politics, and equalityKerala's ruling LDF has reversed its stance on the Sabarimala Temple issue. The party now supports religious fundamentalism and traditional...
- Shiv & ShaktiShaivism followers revere Shiv as the Supreme Being, but traditional beliefs often restrict menstruating women from temples, deeming them i...
- In Kerala, a battle is brewing over sacred threads & bare chestsKerala's political landscape is now focused on a new controversy regarding the practice of men removing upper garments before entering temp...
- If you don't want to use the term 'India', you can't use 'Hindu' either: Shashi TharoorDwelling on the origin of the term 'Hindu' during the launch of 'Nanu Yaake Hindu', the Kannada version of his book 'Why I am a Hindu', the...
- Vivek Ramaswamy's Hindu faith is front and center in his GOP presidential campaignThe 37-year-old biotech entrepreneur turned Republican presidential candidate has been steadily garnering support in a party dominated by c...
- Bindu Ammini, attacked for trying to enter Sabarimala, moves Supreme CourtThe court had struck down a temple rule that disallowed women in their reproductive phases (between 10 and 50 years) from entering the temp...
- SC refers Sabarimala case to 7-judge bench, no stay on entry of womenA five-judge bench, led by former CJI Dipak Misra, eventually struck down the rules as discriminatory of women’s right to equality and wors...
- SC to pronounce on Thursday its verdict on pleas seeking review of Sabarimala verdictThe apex court will deliver its judgement on as many as 65 petitions -- including 56 review petitions and four fresh writ petitions and fiv...
- Give Muslims extra land outside Ram Mandir site: Sadhguru Jaggi VasudevThe disputed land is only about 2.7 acres. If one third of it belongs to Muslims, ideally they should be given their share with extra 2.7 a...
- Women who want to worship Ayyappan face the wrath of the elite Liberals Against SabarimalaMyths have often been a device of dominance in Hinduism, which is why they are unreliable guides to govern contemporary life.
- Supreme Court to hear plea of 2 women seeking security after they entered Sabarimala templeSenior advocate Indira Jaising listed the matter before a bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and justices L N Rao and S K Kaul.
- Why the Sabarimala verdict is an act of social engineeringTraditional Hindu laws have yielded way to gender equality in matters of inheritance and society has accepted it without fuss.
- Sabarimala verdict: SC strikes at the roots of prejudice against menstruationIn the second decade of the 21st century, it needed a constitution bench of the Supreme Court to say that menstruation is not pollution, th...
- Triple talaq: Here's why Supreme Court may strike down unilateral talaqsArguments have ended in the triple talaq case and the judgement is expected before August. SC’s decision will have far-reaching implication...
- Bhoomata Brigade submits memorandum to Devendra Fadnavis on Shani Shingnapur temple issueCongress backed the campaign, saying that it is the "pious duty" of whole society to support such a move.
- What Kerala's new transgender policy could teach other states about recognising the rights of a maltreated communityIndia's transgender people were recognised for the first time by the Census in 2011. It pegged the TG population at 4.88 lakh, 56% of whom ...
- US pastor says yoga 'demonic', sparks rowMars Hill Church pastor Mark Driscoll's statement that yoga is an agent of Hinduism, and hence demonic, has left many yoga gurus seething a...
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