‘I visited Tehran in Nov, and it disproved so many stereotypes’
Sujit John
Sujit is the business editor, Bangalore, in The Times of India. He has been with TOI for 17 years, starting as an Assistant Editor on the Edit Page. He has been tracking techn LESS
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Beneath the shadow of global headlines, day-to-day reality in Iran has long been at variance with Western narratives. In Nov, when we spent three days in Tehran, one of the first messages I received when Ireached – from a friend in US – said the women must all be in hijabs. How wrong that was!
Barring some older women, no one was wearing – forget hijabs – even a scarf over their heads in public places. We were told that in restaurants, if a woman has a scarf covering her head, a young woman might come by, flip it off, and say ‘Don’t betray the movement’.
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Views expressed above are the author’s own.
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