Hijab Ban: The face of discrimination
Over a Lakh Muslim Girls in Karnataka Pay for Anti-Muslim Agenda In the current session of parliament, CPI(M) leader John Brittas claimed that "more than a lakh Muslim girls backed…
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Hijab controversy: No wonder women are always on the receiving end
Of late, opinions regarding the practice of Islamic women wearing hijab have run riot. However, the peak of controversies has been the non-western countries of India and Iran. It has…
Communal Cards Targeting Women!
Anti-Muslim noise raised in Karnataka is just a mild indicator of this being a part of certain right-elements’ communal campaign ahead of coming elections. Not much needs to be said…
Supreme Court Must Stay Karnataka HC Verdict Which Will Result In Exclusion Of Hijab wearing Muslim Girls From Accessing Education
The Karnataka High Court in its order has held that wearing of hijab is not essential to the practice of Islam; that College Development Committees (CDCs) have a right to…
Our India: Either We keep it or it will be Stolen from Us
Our Generation’s Challenge. Our generational challenge is out in the open. The events set in motion from the videos humiliating Muslims[1] in Hindi Belt last summer to Haridwar Dharma Sansads[2]…
Hijab: Pursuing profits of polarization
National prerogative should be on minimizing social and economic inequalities instead of the current thrust on clipping cultural codes. Dress Code - Uniformity and Inclusion in Educational Institutions Barack Obama as President of…
Assault on the idea of education
The Sangh Parivar claims to be a cultural organization. Core supporters of its ideology are upper caste and/or the educated elite. Quite naturally it gives importance to education. It is…
3 M’s behind Hijab issue
The February 5 order of Government of Karnataka banning wearing of Hijab and High court interim order restraining wearing of any form of religious attire has brought to fore the…
Hijab ban: Multiple Dimensions
The raging controversy around Hijab is taking disturbing proportions. In Udupi Karnataka Muslim girls alleged that they were denied entry in to the classroom if they wear Hijab. Then we…
Right to Education, Diversities and Public Institutions
Just a few days back, an incident took place around the wearing of hijab by Muskan Khan. It has created huge controversies, leading to a deeply polarized situation in the…
Interpreting Karnataka’s Hijab Row
In Karnataka, there have been incidents of Muslim girls being banned from attending college for wearing hijab; when they insisted on exercising their right to do so, Hindu students donned…
Islamophobia is taking its most lethal form in India: Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRrPBvWQmq4 Celebrated thinker Noam Chomsky said the “pathology of Islamophobia”, now growing throughout the West, was “taking its most lethal form in India where the Modi government is systematically dismantling…
A Feminist Perspective on Karnataka’s Hijab Row
In an order that legitimizes the decision of state education institutions to prohibit Muslim girl students from wearing the hijab (headscarf), the Karnataka government said on February 5, 2021, that…
Karnataka hijab row: Will the Supreme Court act
The incidents happening in the southern part of Karnataka are deeply distressing and need to be resolved at the earliest. Unfortunately, rather than resolving the issue the current regime wanted…
A salute to Muslim sisters from Karnataka
Mukul Kesavan recently wrote that ‘a Muslim citizen’s default state is a state of culpability’. He cannot be more right than that. What has transpired in recent past, and continues…
NFIW Condemns exclusion of young Muslim girls on Hijab issue in Karnataka
New Delhi, February 7, 2022: The National Federation of Indian women (NFIW) unequivocally condemns the exclusion of young Muslim girls from universities and schools in Karnataka, on the flimsy grounds…
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