The Sunday Standard

Assaulted Madrasa Teacher Seeks Justice After Training Students to Sing "Un-Islamic" National Anthem

Arup Chanda

KOLKATA:  Singing the national anthem is a crime in a Kolkata madrasa, and woe betides any nationalist teacher who encourages students to sing ‘Jana Gana Mana’. Since a year, Kazi Masum Akhtar, the headmaster of Talpukur Aara High Madrasa in the heart of the city, has been banned from its precincts.

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