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Women and girls between 10 and 50 years of age were legally banned from entering Sabarimala from 1991 to 2018. Sabarimala Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shasta, in Pathanamthitta District, Kerala, India. [1] Women and girls of reproductive age have traditionally not been permitted to worship there, as Shasta is a celibate deity. [2]
Bindu Ammini is an Indian lawyer and lecturer at Government Law College, Kozhikode, and a Dalit activist. [1] She is one of the two first women between the age of 10 and 50 to enter the Sabarimala Temple after a Supreme Court of India decision allowed women of reproductive age to enter the temple.
Vanitha Mathil ("Women's Wall") was a human chain formed on 1 January 2019 across the Indian state of Kerala to uphold gender equality and protest against gender discrimination. The wall was formed solely by women and extended for a distance of around 620 kilometres (390 miles) from Kasargod to Thiruvananthapuram .
Sethu Parvathi Bayi is known to have visited the Sabarimala temple, which is known for refusing entry to women of menstruating age. [14] Decades after her death, the Kowdiar palace clarified that she entered the temple after the forbidden age, at 53 years. [15]
Rehana Fathima, also known as Suryagayathri, [1] is an Indian women’s rights activist from Kerala. [2] [3] [4]She has a background in telecommunications and modeling, and has participated in various protests against moral policing and sexism.
The Ready To Wait campaign is a social movement initiated in September 2016 by a group of female devotees of Hindu deity Ayyappan, [1] as a response to a petition filed in the Supreme Court by women's groups to demand the right to enter the Sabarimala temple, located in the southern Indian state of Kerala, which traditionally restricts entry of women of reproductive age (10 to 50 yrs).
Trupti Desai (born 1985) is an Indian social activist and the founder of the Bhumata Brigade & Bhumata Foundation, a Pune-based organization. Desai has campaigned for allowing women to religious places like the Shani Shingnapur Temple, the Haji Ali Dargah, the Mahalakshmi Temple, and the Trimbakeshwar Shiva Temple, all in Maharashtra, and most recently the Sabarimala temple in Kerala.
The Sabarimala Sree Dharma Sastha Temple [1] (Malayalam pronunciation: [ʃabəɾimala]) is a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Ayyappan, who is also known as Dharma Shasta and is the son of the deities Shiva and Mohini (female avatar of the god Vishnu).