The southern Indian state of Kerala is currently experiencing one of the most violent periods of unrest in its history. Over 100 people have been injured, one has died and close to 5,800 have been ...

Two women in the southern Indian state of Kerala made history Wednesday, defying religious conservatives to enter the Sabarimala Temple, one of Hinduism’s holiest sites. The pair, aged 42 and 44 ...

Thousands of police have been deployed in the southern Indian state of Kerala as a centuries-old temple at the center of an ongoing, and sometimes violent, gender dispute prepares to open its ...

The Sabarimala temple was historically closed to women of "menstruating age" - defined as between 10 and 50. The Supreme Court overturned that ban but protesters then attacked women and stopped ...

Women make history by entering Hindu temple in India 00:31. New Delhi --Two women made history Wednesday when they entered one of India's largest Hindu pilgrimage sites.It had been forbidden to ...

And she should not even contemplate visiting the Sabarimala temple, one of Hinduism’s holiest shrines. But Kanakadurga, a 39-year-old civil servant who goes by one name, went anyway. Since then ...

They are the first women in history to enter Sabarimala. As the news broke, violent protests swept Kerala and a state-wide strike was called. One person was killed and 15 injured in the unrest.

In Sabarimala temple’s shadow, a Kerala mosque stands witness to a long history of communal amity The mosque in Erumely is named for Vavar, the Muslim friend of Sabarimala’s presiding deity ...

The two women who defied protesters to enter one of Hinduism's holiest temples say they have no fear of mobs enraged by their actions. Kanakadurga, 39, told the BBC she believed in the right of ...

Thousands of police have been deployed in the southern Indian state of Kerala as a centuries-old temple at the center of an ongoing, and sometimes violent, gender dispute prepares to open its ...

Protests have erupted after the two women entered the Hindu temple Two Indian women have made history by entering a prominent Hindu shrine in the southern state of Kerala, following months of ...