00:00I had travelled to the nerve centre of the hijab controversy.
00:03Here in this college in Udupi,
00:05students came face to face over their religious identity just days before their exam.
00:30These are your classmates.
00:52Have you been wearing it for years?
00:54So long.
00:55Five years.
00:57Are they your friends? Any of them here?
00:59Many of them are our friends.
01:01We come to the college for the purpose of study,
01:03not to promote any religion.
01:05How come they can promote their religion coming to the college?
01:08College means for education.
01:10There are hundreds of people who are wearing the saffron shawl.
01:12That is because they are wearing the hijab.
01:17Can you ask the same thing to them?
01:19Can you go and ask them whether they have the guts to go and ask them?
01:25They have been wearing it for a long time.
01:27They were wearing it.
01:29We are not saying they weren't wearing it.
01:31But this argument got heated to such an extent
01:34that they themselves made us to provoke against them.
01:38Yesterday they wore hijab.
01:40Today they are wearing burqa.
01:42How can we make sure that tomorrow they won't wear the uniform?
01:45Wearing hijab, wearing burqa, when they are supporting their religion,
01:48how come we sit silent?
01:50Do you think you all can come back to the same classroom and sit together and study?
01:54We don't have any problem sitting with them.
01:56We said that this college is ours.
01:58Why should we go out?
02:00We have been wearing it since one day.
02:02Even today we will wear the hijab.
02:04After the protests and bouts of violence in different parts of Karnataka,
02:07the state government ordered the shutting of schools and colleges in the state for a few days.
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