Nose ring is Hindu religious symbol, says British schoolgirl

Nose ring is Hindu religious symbol, says British schoolgirl

London, Oct 10 (IANS) A British teenager has forced her school to allow her to wear a nose stud, with her mother arguing it is a Hindu religious symbol that eases childbirth.Although most British schools have strict rules on facial jewellery, Shannon Connolly - backed by mother Madhu and father Brendan - claimed a nose stud is a Hindu religious requirement.

Shannon’s school in the eastern English town of Skegness relented after Racial Equality Council talks, a local newspaper reported Wednesday.

Shannon’s mother told the Skegness Standard: “When you have your nose pierced, the stud goes through a nerve in your nose, which Hindus believe helps give children and makes childbirth easier.”

The school, St Clement’s College, allows children to wear only a watch and earring studs.

Shannon said: “It’s quite confusing really. I was told at home it is ok to wear it but when I get to school it’s not ok.”

However, her parents are protesting an order for her to carry a laminated card informing teachers she can wear a nose stud.

A spokeswoman for the school said: “I cannot comment on individual students. The recommendation we have received is about the nose stud, but we are a school of over 1,000 children and you cannot recognise everyone.

“We do challenge pupils on jewellery,” she added.

Last year, a catering company serving London’s Heathrow airport had to reinstate an Indian-origin worker who had been sacked for wearing a nose stud to work, which the company bars on health grounds.

Forty-year-old Amrit Lalji, who worked in the VIP lounge of Terminal One, told her employers that her nose stud was a religious symbol and signified her married status.

She was reinstated after the being supported by the Hindu Council UK, which said: “It is as integral a part of the Hindu wedding ceremony as the giving of a wedding ring is within a Christian marriage.

“These marks are not just the outward symbol of marriage - traditionally they are believed to help ensure the match is harmonious. If the company concerned allows wedding bands, we don’t see why she can’t wear a tiny nose stud.”

Her company, which bans all “flesh piercings” on the grounds that they may carry bacteria, later said Lalji had been reinstated because she was not directly engaged in catering.

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US-based Indian girl’s decision to get nose pierced in trouble in US school

US-based Indian girl’s decision to get nose pierced in trouble in US school

By Arun Kumar
Washington, Oct 27 (IANS) An Indian-American girl kicked out of her school in Utah state for wearing a traditional nose ring is back in her class after she exchanged it for an almost invisible transparent stud.

School authorities at the Bountiful Junior High School agreed to accept the stud after their action caused a minor storm with an Indian American group alleging that the school was denying the teenager’s right to express her religious and cultural identity.

Born to an American mother and an Indian Sikh father, Suzannah Pabla was sent home in mid-October when she wore the nose ring, a local TV report said.

While school officials said it was simply an even-handed application of school dress code, Pabla’s mother Shirley alleged racial discrimination.

Suzannah’s parents divorced and her father moved out of state. She sometimes worships as a Mormon, sometimes in her father’s Sikh faith.

Before the issue was resolved, authorities said they consulted the Religious Roundtable of Salt Lake.

“What they told us is it’s cultural, it isn’t a religious tenet. And that part of the Hindu culture is that a nose ring like this signifies someone’s been married,” Davis School District spokesman Chris Williams Williams said.

Leaders of the Indian-American community said the student was apparently honouring the tradition of her father by putting a stud in her pierced nose. They demanded that the school admit its mistake, reinstate and apologise to Pabla and her parents.

A spokesman of the Davis County School District, which administers the school, admitted that Bounty Junior High had a stricter dress code than the district norm.

“I wanted to be like more of half my culture,” Suzannah Pabla was quoted as saying by KSL-TV. Her mother, Shirley, said: “She’s just embracing her heritage. I want her to.

“Every school has their prerogative, as long as it’s more, in addition to our district dress policy,” Shirley said. “It’s her dad’s religious thing, it’s you know, come on!”

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Nose piercing and nose rings were mentioned in olden manuscripts and Vedic Scripts, which dates back to 6000 years. In the west, nose piercing first appeared among the hippies who traveled to India in the early 1970's. It was later adopted by the Punk movement of the early 1980's as a symbol of rebellion against conservative values and ideals. The Hippies who then traveled to India in a mass scale, specifically to the western coastline and Goa, used to get this novelty items from India.

It is said that Ayurvedic (The oldest Vedic scripts that refer to Medicine and part of Vedic Resources) medicine associates nostril's piercing location with the female reproductive organs. That's why you need get the ear pierced by an experienced goldsmith, who knows by touching the skin, whether or not any nerve pass through the specific portion. While piercing the ear or nose, no passing nerve system should be disturbed or wounded, hence much care has to be taken for piercing. which is divided into many chapters, states. Ayuveda, which is part of the Indian Vedic Scripts, states that Nose too linked with the female reproductive organs; accordingly the nose piercing is supposed to make childbirth easier and lessen period pain during women's natural menstrual couse and periods.

Certainly, the ancient Sages and Saints had a far better mode of understanding anatomy & the human body's nature, functions, plus and minus points of daily behavioral patterns etc. And that too, without having a computer and scanners! Their advanced knowledge in every particle of this universe was the one that they had the enormous power to control everything... absolutely everything from their breath to body to mind and what not? Modern days telepathy system was conceived & practiced during the Vedic era. And to know about the human body mechanical system did they lag behind? Astonishingly, the practices of yester years bring more merits to their customs than just wondering.