a feeling of extreme pain hit me like a bolt. The image of a secular India blurred in the cloud of my tears. A thousand questions arose, a hundred protests, but I pressed them into silent tears.
You must be thinking now, why would a mere request to remove a scarf hurt someone so much? And why would I show so much of rigidity in keeping it on my head. Here's how.
I, before this day, considered myself as a proud and free citizen of a democratic, socialist, secular and a liberal India. Today my pride has weakened a bit, a little disturbed and shaky.
I question, why would the former President of a secular country, include in his security conditions, the need to remove a harmless piece of cloth, an identity, from a woman?
Burqa and scarf were briefly being mentioned as if they were AK47s and Grenades.