Sabarimala row: Lakhs of Kerala women form 620-km long renaissance wall for ‘Vanitha Mathil’

Women raise their hands to take a pledge to fight gender discrimination as they form part of a hundreds kilometer long "women''s wall" in Thiruvananthapuram, in the southern Indian state of Kerala. The wall was organized in the backdrop of conservative protestors blocking the entry of women of menstruating age at the Sabarimala temple, one of the world''s largest Hindu pilgrimage sites defying a recent ruling from India''s top court to let them enter.

(Photo by: AP Photo/R.S. Iyer)

Thousands of women take pledge while participating in the 'women’s wall' against communalism and gender discrimination, in Kochi, Kerala. (Photo by: PTI Photo) 

Women hold out their hands as they stand in a line to take part in a 'women's wall protest in Kochi in southern Kerala state. (Photo by: AFP)

Tens of thousands of women formed a human chain across a southern Indian state, in support of a court order overturning a partial ban on women entering one of Hinduism's holiest temples, witnesses said. (Photo by: AFP)

Lakhs of women in Kerala participated in the 620 km-long 'women’s wall' –from Kasargod in the north to Thiruvananthapuram in the south – to send a message of gender equality. (Photo by: PTI)