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🚗 Why we sent Sharan to Udupi
Swarajya Staff
Jul 17, 2023, 07:27 PM | Updated Jul 18, 2023, 07:40 PM IST
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Remember the hijab controversy?
Dear reader,
We sent Sharan Setty, our newly minted ground reporter, to Udupi. It has been a few months since the hijab agitation, and we wanted to get a sense of it.
Sharan has found girls intimidated by illiberal, socially regressive organisations. These are groups wanting to put Indian women on the path to a Taliban-style society.
Udupi, at large, wants to move onto progress and remain as mainstream as possible. That includes girls forced into hijab.
Click to read Sharan Setty's travelogue from Udupi.
Unfortunately, Swarajya is the only media outlet that would invest to send staff here and cover the side of progress - of those fighting Talibanesque elements.
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