"Secular" Bharat The Case of Sabarimala - Anti-Hindu Activism🔗

Visited by many devotees a year, Sabarimala is one of the world's largest pilgrimage sites, exceeded only by Mecca. Given its prominence the Sabarimala temple has been targeted by Anti-Hindu social activists for years as part of a broader campaign to delegitimize Hinduism as sexist and patriarchal.

The temple was forcibly entered, vandalized, its deity broken and burned down in 1950 by Syrian Christian provocateurs. At the time of the arson, the Marxist atheist Chief Minister of Travancore-Cochin, C. Keshavan, famously stated:

"If a Hindu temple is destroyed, that much superstition is destroyed"

and since 1991 a group of activist lawyers have sought to force Sabarimala to accept women by judicial fiat.

The remains of Sabarimala after it was burned down in 1950