2,500 police deployed as temple at the center of gender dispute opens its doors
(WorldNews Asia)

New Delhi (CNN)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 doors for the annual pilgrimage season. For centuries, women aged 10 to 50 were not allowed to enter the Sabarimala Temple. But in September last year, the country`s Supreme Court overturned the ban, and in January, women entered the temple for the first time, defying opposition from religious conservatives. Is the Kerala temple battle about gender, law or religion? Unfortunately, all three But that decision is now in question, after the Supreme Court agreed Thursday to review its...