In recent weeks, India’s Supreme Court has overturned a number of laws that codified discrimination against women. Just this week, the high court got rid of adultery laws and today ended a ban on women of menstruating age from entering Hindu temples. Journalist Chhavi Sachdev talks to Marco Werman about the signs of a reckoning in India over gender issues.
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