Recent Highlights
All Stories for Hijab Controversy
Hijab ban in classrooms: SC refuses urgent hearing on pleas against Karnataka HC verdict
• 3 years agoThe high court had dismissed the petitions filed by a section of Muslim students from the Government Pre-University Girls College in Udupi, seeking permission to wear hijab inside the classroom.
TNTJ members arrested for threatening judges in hijab case: All you need to know about the Islamic group active in south India
Fp Explainers • 3 years agoThe arrest of three members of Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamath {TNTJ}, who threatened the Karnataka High Court judges over the recent hijab case, has brought the Islamic group back in a not-so-favourable limelight
Hijab controversy: A concerted and deliberate campaign to shift goalposts, paradigms and terms of reference
Abhijit Iyer Mitra • 3 years agoThe controversy is deliberate because almost everyone involved seems to know the core of the issue, but in order to keep it burning for reasons ranging from electoral gains to newspaper sales, have decided to muddy the waters
Hijab controversy: The hidden agenda is Muslim consolidation
Sandeep Krishnarao Patil • 3 years agoThe question of allowing hijab in secular institutions should at once be answered by a resounding ‘no’
Hijab row: College panelist brands petitioner-Muslim girls as anti-nationals
• 3 years agoKarnataka High Court dismissed the petition filed by the girls seeking permission to wear hijab (scarf) along with their uniform on campus
Hijab row: Karnataka HC says unseen hands at work to engineer social unrest and disharmony
• 3 years agoThe court also declined to entertain petitions which had sought an investigation by the CBI and the NIA as to the involvement of radical Islamic organisations and their funding by some foreign universities to Islamise India
Hijab row exposes double-standards for Left, ‘liberal’ intellectuals and what they can learn from Ambedkar
Pranay Kumar • 3 years agoIt is astonishing that the so-called intellectuals, progressivist and feminist writers, and human rights and social revolutionaries are completely silent on burqa and hijab
Head-on | Beyond the hijab: Modernising the Muslim mind
Minhaz Merchant • 3 years agoThe hijab is an instrument in the hands of one-eyed clerics who want to keep their flock blind. India must stand together to defeat them and their supporters who have weaponised the hijab
Limits of protests: Why civil disobedience can’t be one-stop solution to problems in democracy
101 India • 3 years agoFrom hijab row to farmers’ agitation, it’s now obvious that protests can themselves become a problem if they become a daily occurrence
Right Word | Origin of Muslim radicalisation in India, threats it pose and how we ignore it
Arun Anand • 3 years agoThe killing of a Bajrang Dal activist and the ongoing hijab controversy in Karnataka bring to the fore growing radicalisation among Muslims