{"id":304244,"date":"2018-10-17T06:30:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T06:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304244"},"modified":"2018-10-17T06:53:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T06:53:58","slug":"kerala-amid-protests-sabarimala-temple-open-its-gates-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/kerala-amid-protests-sabarimala-temple-open-its-gates-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala: Amid protests, Sabarimala Temple open its gates for women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/supreme-court-allows-women-of-all-ages-to-enter-keralas-sabarimala-temple\/sabarimala\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-303361\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-303361 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sabarimala-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sabarimala-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sabarimala-768x483.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sabarimala-696x438.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sabarimala-667x420.jpg 667w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sabarimala.jpg 974w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/a>Amid protests, the famous Sabarimala Temple in Kerala opened its doors on Wednesday for the women devotees of all ages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tensions are running high in Kerala as the gates to the hill shrine opened for the first time since the Supreme Court overturned a centuries-old ban on women in the 10-50 age group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As devotees make their way to the temple, those opposing the judgment are forcefully stopping women of \u201cmenstruating age\u201d at Nilakkal and not letting them to reach the last base camp before the temple.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nilakkal, the main access point is around 20 km from the shrine, where pilgrims disembark.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Security personnel were deployed in Nilakkal to ensure entry of all devotees into the hill temple.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">About 1,000 police personnel, including women, have been posted around Sabarimala and at the two base camps along the route after yesterday\u2019s violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan earlier said that the state government will follow the Supreme Court verdict and the government will not request a review of the order as there should be no discrimination on the basis of gender.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid protests, the famous Sabarimala Temple in Kerala opened its doors on Wednesday for the women devotees of all ages. Tensions are running high in Kerala as the gates to the hill shrine opened for the first time since the Supreme Court overturned a centuries-old ban on women in the 10-50 age group. As devotees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":303361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2196,2072,2014],"tags":[466,5615,1891,3926],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304244"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304251,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304244\/revisions\/304251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}