Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai took to twitter on February 9 to comment on the hijab-saffron shawl controversy in Karnataka. The girls’ education activist said that ‘refusing to let girls go to school in their hijabs is horrifying’.
Karnataka has been witnessing a raging controversy where Muslim girls are not allowed into classrooms wearing hijab in some colleges, citing dress code, and a section of Hindu boys insist on wearing saffron shawls if hijabs are allowed in classrooms.