Hindus laud US school board proposal allowing student to wear nose rings

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Shri. Rajan Zed

Nevada: The Hindus have commended Johnston County School Board (Smithfield, North Carolina, USA) for reportedly considering a policy revision, thus allowing students to wear nose rings. Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) on Thursday, said that nose piercing and nose ornaments had been a tradition of women of India for centuries and the Hindu goddesses had been depicted wearing nose ornaments.

Ban on nose rings was unfair to female students of India descent and it was denying the right to students of India background to express their religio-cultural identity, he said. Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, hoped that the proposed dress code would show sensitivity to religio-cultural beliefs of students of India descent.

He further said that they respected the school dress code policy as long as it did not violate the traditions and beliefs of the pupils. Noses of girls in India were usually pierced around puberty and it reportedly found mention in ancient Ayurvedic text. Old architecture and paintings of India depicted the presence of tradition of nose ornaments and Indian poets had been singing their praise, Zed added. Zed urged all school districts in the country to consider revising their dress code thus allowing nose rings/studs to the pupils.