This Powerful Photo Series Shows How Patriotism Looks Like ‘Behind The Pardah’

Republic Day just went by and there are a million of patriotic stories hailing from each corner of our nation. Be it a li’l kid handing out National flags at signals or the close-knit colonial function in your complex or locality, people have different ways of showing their loyalty toward the great nation of ours. Take these burqa-clad girls from Delhi for that matter.

Posted by Roshni Khatri, who went to an all-girls school in the “streets of Seelampur (Delhi) which has an intermingling of lessons of Islam, lessons of women empowerment and lessons of nationalism for their girls”. And, they are vividly beautiful.

Take a look.

1. This little girl’s bubbling with joy.

 

2. The function took place a day in advance, on January 25.

 

3. Girls clad in burqas with orange, white and green dupattas took to stage to perform.

 

4. The chants of “mulk ki mohobbat mein’’ filled the basement of the small school.

 

5. Girls wearing hijabs sang songs of empowerment.

 

6. And, there were moments the li’l ones, sitting in the audience, yawned wide-mouthed. Didn’t we all do the same during assemblies and functions, back in our school days?

 

7. Some were even snapped napping.

 

8. There is something strangely intriguing about these girls in burqa singing about empowerment.

 

9. Dripping with cuteness are these hijab-clad girls wearing wreaths.

 

10. That look of innocence should be preserved.

 

11. The owner of the school told Roshni that the way the world sees them has to change…

 

12. …their view on nationalism has to change.

 

13. And, we couldn’t agree more.

Mr Ansari, owner of the school, also told Roshni that these girls have to prove it to the world that intelligence and knowledge lies even under those burqas.

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Source: Behind The Pardah