“All students have to come to college in the prescribed dress code, every day except on Saturday. Students are prohibited from wearing ‘burkha’ in college,” read the notice issued by JD Women’s College in Patna.

The Government Medical College in Kerala’s capital, Trivandram, has issued a dress code to its female students which instructs them not to wear jeans, leggings, short tops or noisy ornaments. The vice-principal of the college issued these rules in a circular on October 20, and asked women to only wear churidar or saree, and to […]