Five students are challenging a ban against wearing hijabs at their government-run school, inflaming a fractious national debate over religion and minority rights in India
UDUPI, India—At 17 years old, Aliya Assadi has a cabinet full of karate trophies. She has dreams of becoming a wildlife photographer. She should be focused on preparing for her final high school exams.
Instead, she has found herself at the center of a fight over whether she and her classmates should be allowed to wear hijabs—Islamic headscarves—after the government-run girls school they attended banned wearing them in class. A small group of students has challenged the ban at the school in the coastal city of Udupi, inflaming a fractiousTo Read the Full Story
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