The recent hijab controversy in Kochi raises deeper questions about liberty, pluralism, and whether Kerala is witnessing subtle signs of “micro revivalism.”
When I first read about the incident—a Muslim schoolgirl asked to remove her headscarf at a Christian-run school—I felt a familiar tension between faith and freedom. As a Muslim and a libertarian, I instinctively sympathised with the child. I am no fan of uniforms or enforced conformity in schools. Having been shaped by Kerala’s public education system, I am also not a fan of private schools run by religious institutions. My own children attend schools that have no uniforms except for PE classes.
I attempt to understand these trends through the lenses of individual liberty, plural
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