Thrissur. Jyotsna Padmanabhan, 24, in KeralaAnd his mother Archana Kumari is conducting priestly and tantric rituals. In this way, both mother and daughter have quietly created a new history by breaking the walls of age-old male supremacy. The two women are learned to have been performing priestly roles at a temple in Kerala's Thrissur district for some time and performing tantric rituals at neighboring temples and other places in what is generally considered a male-dominated area.