India, April 5 -- It has been nearly two decades since the Indian Young Lawyers Association filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court questioning the limitations imposed on the entry of women in the Sabarimala Temple at Periyar Tiger Reserve in Keralam. Since then, a verdict was given by the five-judge constitution bench in 2018, which held that the limited entry of women in the temple was unconstitutional. It was later referred to the bench for a review petition in 2019 and is now set to commence arguments from April 7, 2026, in front of a nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court. This is an extraordinary situation where secular justifications and misogynistic allegations have been used to adjudicate matters which are ro...