Forced to Remove the “Faith”: How Hindu students are targeted at exam centres

Forced to Remove the “Faith”: How Hindu students are targeted at exam centres

Hindu students appearing for the Karnataka Common Entrance Test (KCET) reportedly found themselves forced to choose between educational opportunity and civilizational identity. Several students wearing the Janeu (Yajnopaveetha) — the sacred thread central to Hindu samskara and spiritual discipline — were denied entry unless they removed it, despite the absence of any official examination rule prohibiting it. What should have been a routine exami…