Civilisational Question Before Bharat
1. The Core Issue
- Why are students across Bharat increasingly being penalised or pressured for expressing indigenous religious identity in educational spaces meant to be neutral and inclusive?
- Recent incidents across states suggest not isolated mistakes, but a recurring pattern of selective enforcement in educational institutions.
2. A Nationwide Pattern
Across schools, colleges, and examination centres, repeated cases include:
- Sikh students penalised for wearing the kara
- Hindu children punished for cultural greetings
- Students beaten for wearing kalava
- Sacred threads (janaiu) removed during exams
- But Nobody questions wearing of cross mecklaces and jali topi
- Hindu Devotional observances labelled as “discipline violations”
These actions are justified as uniformity or decorum, yet similar scrutiny is not applied equally across all faiths, raising concerns of selective secularism.
3. When Discipline Erases Identity
- Uniformity should ensure equality—not erase identity.
- Non-disruptive religious practices treated as misconduct
- Constitutional protections under Articles 25 and 28 ignored
- Hindu and Sikh identity increasingly treated as optional
Over time, this normalises the idea that indigenous identity is negotiable.
4. Forced Religious Instruction: A Red Line
More serious are allegations of non-consensual religious instruction:
- Children taught Christian/Muslim prayers without parental consent while hindu prayers are not allowed
- Students compelled into prayer-like postures
- Assemblies used for ideological messaging
These violate constitutional freedoms, child rights, and parental authority. Their recurrence points to systemic failure.
5. Political Legacy and Institutional Conditioning
Critics link these trends to post-Independence political choices, where Congress-era secularism allegedly:
- Marginalised Sanatana Dharma in public institutions
- Encouraged minority appeasement for vote-bank politics
- Distorted cultural narratives
- Retained state control over Hindu institutions
Education became a soft target for long-term ideological conditioning.
6. Why Education Suffers First
Education shapes identity before citizenship:
- Ideas embed before critical thinking develops
- Bias normalises quietly and lasts long
- Neutrality erodes first in classrooms
7. The Choice Before Bharat
This is a civilisational choice:
- Neutrality vs selective secularism
- Identity with dignity vs identity under suspicion
- National cohesion vs fragmentation
Protecting educational neutrality is not about privileging faith, but about constitutional equality, dignity, and national unity.
- Bharat’s future is shaped first in its classrooms.
🇮🇳 Jai Bharat, Vandematram 🇮🇳
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