Sunday, December 19, 2010

Inspiring

In August 1986 few kids in Kerala were expelled from their school for refusing to sing the Indian National Anthem, 'Jana Gana Mana'. A parent appealed to the Supreme Court on grounds on 'fair treatment'.
Supreme Court ordered the school authorities to re-enroll the students and went on to add the following to their decision:
"Our tradition teaches tolerance, our philosophy preaches tolerance, our Constitution practices tolerance, let us not dilute it".

I think this is phenomenal... truly democratic, I say !

-- eL.

Source of information: Wikipedia

2 comments:

Abhishek said...

they were kidss???
they even knw why they dont want to sing it?
Do u knw why?

EmotionalLogic said...

The article I read didn't mention why the kids didn't know/didn't want to sing the National Anthem ..