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A guest lecturer at Tumkuru’s Jain PU College in Karnataka has quit amid the controversy over restrictions on wearing a hijab (headscarf) at educational institutions that has triggered a massive debate. Even as the Karnataka High Court hears a slew of petitions against the government order, students and teachers in the southern state have been told […]
Even as the Karnataka High Court hears arguments on whether to allow or not allow religious clothes in educational institutions, another government college in the state has now turned into a site of protest for sending away students who insisted on wearing the hijab in the classroom. The Government PU college at Vijayapura in north […]
Rashad Hussain, the US Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom (IRF), tweeted, “The Indian state of Karnataka should not determine the permissibility of religious clothing. Hijab bans in schools violate religious freedom and stigmatize and marginalize women and girls”. This reaction comes in the wake of the events of the hijab ban in schools and colleges […]
