Khalid lives in India. he sports a beard and a skull cap to work. Both symbolise his religion. Can he be forced to remove them? Give reasons to support your answer.
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I am a Hindu and I would not qualify it by adding the word ‘liberal’, for the simple reason that Hinduism is intrinsically liberal. I will quote a small incident that occurred in my school days. I had just moved to a government school from a private convent. The national anthem was recited before classes began and one of my good friends asked me after the class as to which church I was going to. My confused look made him ask “Are you not a Christian?’. My friend said that I draw the cross after the anthem and only Christians do that. Incidentally, that friend was one.
I wasn’t sure. When I went home, I asked my mother who was at that time a Lecturer, the question. She said ‘No, why do you ask?”
I explained what happened at school. She laughed and said “That is what you picked up from the Convent chapel. I’ve seen u do it even in Temples.”
I remembered the lines of the prayer ..”Father we thank thee for the night…”that we used to recite every morning in the assembly in the Holy Angels’ Convent, after which we all used to draw the holy cross on our chest.
“ Why didn’t you tell me?” I asked.
“ Why should you say something that will affect the innocence of a child? You should grow up with an unbiased mind”.
Years later when I think about it, I bow my head not only to a largehearted mother and teacher, but also to a culture that gave her vision. Today, when you see a culture that allowed refugees from other cultures to settle down here and helped them to establish their faiths here., at a time when other lands were practising religious bigotry, it makes you wonder whether the largesse of this country was misused and unrecognised by those who are trying to teach us a new version of selective secularism! So those belonging to the faith of the original inhabitants cannot be blamed for feeling victimised, when a sort of minorityism that is incompatible with the real meaning of secularism is being used for political advantage.
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