'Apartheid on Muslim women': Activists pen open letter over hijab row

Hundreds of feminists, democratic groups, academicians, lawyers and activists on Thursday issued an open letter condemning the row over girls wearing hijab in colleges in Karnataka, saying it has become the "latest pretext to impose apartheid on and attack Muslim women". It said the video from Mandya in Karnataka of a saffron-stole-wearing mob of men surrounding a

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