https://www.scmp.com/rss/329413/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is wading into troubled waters in Kerala, where conservative protesters are blocking women of menstruating age from entering Sabarimala temple, one of the world’s largest Hindu pilgrimage sites, as it prepares to open for the season on Friday. The BJP, which failed to win even a single one of the state’s 20 parliamentary seats in the 2014 election, hopes to do better in next year’s polls by supporting the agitators, thousands of... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/2173464/indias-sabarimala-temple-allowing-women-access-clash-between?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/2173464/indias-sabarimala-temple-allowing-women-access-clash-between?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Nov 2018 01:30:00 +0000 Can you believe it? Paul Kingston, 44-year-old patriarch of the Kingston clan, a prosperous, Salt Lake City-based family in the US state of Utah, has sired 145 children from 25 wives and is still going strong. In fact, most of the adult males belonging to this group have just one wife or more than 20, although polygamy is forbidden by federal and state laws. The Kingston family belongs to the Mormon Church, which was founded in New York in 1835, and which once viewed multiple marriage as a... https://www.scmp.com/article/436612/trouble-and-strife-aplenty-americas-polygamists?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/436612/trouble-and-strife-aplenty-americas-polygamists?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 01 Dec 2003 16:00:00 +0000