Women fight for access to sacred places in India

This week, an estimated 500 women traveled by bus toward a temple in the Indian state of Maharashtra with the intent of storming its sacred altar – where females have been barred for more than 400 years. The group’s leader, a fiery 31-year-old housewife named Trupti Desai, had planned to rent a helicopter so she could […]











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