For those to whom the hijab appears as a troubling enigma, it could not have had a more enigmatic wearer than the poet Kamala Das—who converted to Islam for love at age 65 and turned herself into Kamala Surayya. An iconoclast who strung out her inner life in an autobiography shockingly frank on matters of sexuality—so frank that it was censured as a “striptease”—ensconced behind the Muslim veil? It was the unlikeliest of controversies to have ruffled India’s public life. She passed on in 2009, a mystery wrapped in an enigma, literally. But an unlucky 13 years later, the hijab has been yanked back to centre stage, borne along on a set of seismic events with very many more layers—and vastly higher detonative power. Events that played on the soil of inner and outer lives.Should it be banned in schools? Is it essential to the practice of islam? How will the outcome impact the nation?
It started small. Six girls in their mid-teens, in the coastal Karnataka town of Udupi, were refused permission by their pre-university college (PUs are the equivalent of Plus 2) to don the hijab in class. The truth here comes in many versions but essentially the dispute dates to the monsoon semester of 2020. The girls had just joined as freshers. They wore normal clothes, hijab included, for a few days before everyone bought their uniforms. They sought permission to retain their headscarves over and above it, but in vain—the hijabs had to come off for class. Something sacred for them, how to comport oneself in public, was being violated in public.
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