Trupti Desai, a women's rights activist, waves from inside the Cochin International Airport at Kochi, India, November 16, 2018. REUTERS /Sivaram V
KOCHI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters blocked all the exits at a southern Indian airport on Friday to stop a women's rights activist from heading to a Hindu temple to defy a centuries-old ban on the entry of women of menstruating age.
Widespread protests broke out in the tourist resort state of Kerala after the Supreme Court in September ordered authorities to lift a ban on women or girls aged between 10 and 50 from entering the temple, which draws millions of worshippers a year.
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