That a section of people across the country is currently spending valuable time and energy over what girl students belonging to a particular religious community should wear in school is nothing but a wastage of valuable time and energy. The word 'uniform' means everything has to be the same or similar. The dictionary says that 'uniform' means having always the same form, manner, or degree; or not varying or variable. It also means "a dress of a distinctive design or fashion worn by members of a particular group and serving as a means of identification." The Cambridge Dictionary says that uniform means a particular set of clothes that has to be worn by members of the same organization or group of people; like a military uniform, school uniform or a nurse's uniform. The Oxford Dictionary is also of the same view – "the special set of clothes worn by all members of an organization or a group at work, or by children at school a military/police/nurse's uniform soldiers in uniform." The present controversy, if at all one can call it a controversy, began with a simple reminder by the head of the development committee of the Government PU College for Girls in Udupi (Karnataka) that students are required to wear the defined uniform and not any other things, including Hijab, which six girl students were wearing. The six girl students, who appear to have been in the grip of fundamentalist elements of their faith, not only refused to abide by the uniform but even walked out of college in a so-called protest. A few more students joined them and organized a protest on December 31, 2021, claiming that the college was not allowing them to attend classes for the past 15 days. The reason, as has been mentioned, is simple: the college has a uniform dress for students, and it is a common rule that all students wear it. There is nothing new or anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu in it. Millions of students in schools and colleges across India (and across the civilized world) are wearing uniforms. This handful of college students, who are definitely under the influence of fundamentalists, not only filed a writ petition in the Karnataka High Court but also approached the National Human Rights Commission. Elements that have been in the habit of kicking up rows over and everything, not only picked up the 'issue' but has also blown it up out of proportion. The fundamental Muslim world, which has been by and large in an anti-India stance since the creation of Pakistan (and especially after Pakistan's eastern arm was severed by India in 1971 to create Bangladesh), is also found to be very active and over-enthusiastic in this issue. Some pundits – including the so-called seculars and so-called Communists – have begun to exhibit their self-styled intellectualism by mixing up sacred terms like secularism, culture, history and civilization to create a situation, which, if allowed to continue, will cause chaos and long-term damage to development. Today they are raising their hands in favour of permitting students to wear Hijab in schools and colleges. Tomorrow they will say that officers and soldiers in the Indian armed forces belonging to a particular faith be allowed to wear sport long beard, wear a taquyiah (and women officers a Hijab). In a real secular situation, the Hijab controversy would never have come up at all. It would have been settled by a simple diktat that Muslim girls can wear Hijabs in private spaces but not in schools, colleges and any other institution or organization (like hospitals and factories) because they are public spaces. But, a section of people who have been always looking for an opportunity to create communal tension and disturbance even since the pre-independence days, has been propping this and similar issues at regular intervals. This has to stop, and the government of India and the Supreme Court must take a strong stand so that communal forces are permanently prevented from creating such disturbances in the country.