Punished for a Prayer on My Lips
More than a century ago, poet Allama Iqbal wrote Lab pe aati hai dua (a prayer on my lips), a poem for children. Evocative and emotional, this poem has been sung with love and devotion in Indian and Pakistani schools for years, including the prestigious Doon School and Mayo College.
In 21st century India, a government school principal in Uttar Pradesh was suspended for making his students recite this poem in the morning assembly. What is at the root of this paradox? People from different walks of life share the ways in which the poem speaks to them.
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