TO MARK INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY MUSLIM STUDENTS ORGANIZE THREE DAY EXHIBITION TO EXPLAIN HOW CAPITALISM IS ANTI WOMEN AND TO SHOWCASE ISLAMIC SOLUTIONS TO WOMEN'S PROBLEMS I.E. BURKA (INDIA)

Women students in flowing burqas talk about how purdah is the “purest form of existence for a woman”. They explain how capitalism — with its notions of financial independence or a career for women — is anti-women.

Models are on display to help explain how purdah is to be observed.

And then, apparently in a concession to more “modern” views, the women also speak about dowry, foeticide, sexual violence and women’s health.

All this is part of a three-day exhibition that started on Friday at one of Aligarh Muslim University’s women’s hostels, Abdullah Hall, to — ironically — mark International Women’s Day.

The exhibition, which apparently has the permission of the vice-chancellor, has been organised by a students’ group named ‘Students of AMU’.

Anam Rais Ansari, one of the organisers, and a student of law, said they were providing “Islamic solutions” to women’s problems.

The group has organised a talk titled ‘Women Empowerment: An Alternative in Focus’, at Kennedy Hall on the campus on March 8.



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