Week 3
Hi everyone. Welcome to Wild Wild Week. I was out of station last week and hence had taken a break from the blog. I am really sorry for that. One of the most debated things this week was a topic middle-schoolers have for essay writing and debate competitions: Are school uniforms necessary? There are many protests throughout the country, with people protesting not only for the allowance of hijabs, which were allowed until recently, but also for other religious symbols in educational institutions. Well, to be honest, this is an open-ended question. But here’s what I think: Like reservations, religion should be kept out of educational institutes. Religious symbols, notably turbans and hijabs have very much been a part of the Indian educational institutions since time immemorial. Not only in educational institutions, but religious clothes and symbols are a part of many other places, including the Parliament. Article 25 of the constitution allows us to preach any re...