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A recent feature written by Taslima Nasreen and published by a news portal was titled ‘Gods are male, they hate women: Why fighting for entry to temples is futile’.  Taslima Nasreen is a celebrated author-activist who has been living in India or Hindustan since mid-2000s. Her Bangladeshi passport has been revoked because of her views and she has been living in exile for more than a decade now. She asked for and was granted asylum in India. It says a lot about the multicultural fabric of India when a person feels safer living here- a country where the majority religion is different than her own- than in the country where the majority religion is same as hers.  Taslima Nasreen wrote that ‘India, too, has many places where women are barred like… Kamakhya temple in Assam ….’(screenshot below). This is a very misleading statement. In fact, it is incorrect. Not only are women allowed in most temples including the Kamakhya temple (the writer of this article has herself been to Kamakhya tem

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