Friday, March 24, 2017

Meet the Hyderabad couple fighting for the right to reject religion...

What’s in a sarkaari form? A lot of things, including your name, ‘father/husband’s name’, date of birth, and of course, your religion and caste.

But what happens when you don’t believe in religion, and don’t want to bring up your child with a caste? What about the non-religious, the agnostics, the atheists, the children of couples who hold different faiths, or just about any person who does not want to tell the government which gods they pray to?

A couple from Hyderabad are fighting a very interesting battle to seek a provision in official forms, for those who follow no religion and caste. They took the case to court, and the Hyderabad High Court on Tuesday issued notices based on the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by DV Ramakrishna Rao and S Clarance Krupalini.

The court has asked the government of Telangana and Andhra, along with the Centre to respond in two weeks, on some of the questions raised by the couple.

"It all started in 2010, when my younger daughter was joining school, and the authorities insisted that we had to mention some religion in the place provided, even though it was against our wishes," Ramakrishna Rao tells TNM. Full story...

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