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Articles with tag: burkha

The Veil Issue, Once Again

Aparna Pande   Oct 16, 2006   interacts: 24

Veils were worn by women in Europe during the Victorian era and earlier decades. Society did not institute a banning of veils, rather over a period of time society changed and the veil vanished. Similar is the case of the hijab and the burkha. Education,

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