The Shree Varshney College, on Saturday, issued a notice banning entry of students in the campus without 'prescribed uniforms' and refused entry to Muslim girls who were wearing hijab.
The grim likelihood is that for tens of millions of our children, the theft is likely to be permanent - and all we are likely to be able to offer them are free rations and cheap data.
A protest march on Saturday called out the growing harassment of Muslim women in Karnataka. More than 100 activists, students, teachers, academicians, writers, social workers, artists and transgender persons marched from the KRS Bengaluru railway station to Freedom Park calling for upholding the dignity, plurality and peace guaranteed in the Constitution.
After six Muslim women students in Karnataka's Udupi were denied entry into their classroom for wearing hijabs, the issue has come to the national forefront with schools and colleges in various parts of the country now following suit.