3-Year-Old Beaten and Silenced for Saying “Radhe Radhe”

In a disturbing case from Mother Teresa English Medium School in Bagdumar village, Durg district in Chhattisgarh. Principal Ila Evan Colvin allegedly physically assaulted a nursery student, a child no older than three years, because the student greeted her with the words “Radhe Radhe” during morning assembly.

According to police reports, not only did Colvin beat the minor, she also sealed the child’s mouth with tape and warned her against ever using the Hindu greeting again. The matter came to light when the traumatised child narrated her ordeal to her parents, prompting the family to file a formal police complaint.

The authorities have since booked the principal under Sections 115(2) and 299 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and Section 75 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act. She has been arrested.

A Pattern of Cultural Intolerance?

What appears, on the surface, to be an isolated act of misconduct must be viewed within a broader and unsettling context. Across India, Christian missionary schools, many of which receive foreign funding, have long been accused of promoting religious bias under the guise of “modern education.”

This particular incident exposes something deeper and more troubling: an atmosphere where Hindu children are shamed for expressing their identity, even through harmless greetings like “Radhe Radhe.” And had the child not spoken up, this act of aggression might have been dismissed as just another case of a “strict teacher disciplining a student.”

But this was not discipline. This was suppression. Suppression of faith. Suppression of culture. And Suppression of Bharat.

Schools or Indoctrination Centres?

Education is supposed to liberate. Yet when missionary-run institutions behave as cultural conversion hubs, targeting impressionable Hindu children, they pave the way for long-term civilizational damage.

These institutions often market themselves as value-based, English-medium schools, but behind closed doors, they frequently push a narrative that is hostile to native Indian traditions. In many such schools, Hindu customs are discouraged, Sanskrit prayers are replaced, and Christian festivals receive greater prominence, all while receiving foreign donations meant for “social service.”

This isn’t education. This is soft cultural colonisation, carried out not with swords, but with syllabi.

The Larger Question: What Are We Teaching Our Children?

This is not merely about one child or one school. It is about what kind of India we are allowing to take shape within our classrooms. If young Hindu children are discouraged, through violence or shame, from embracing their identity, we are raising a generation that may grow up feeling detached, confused, or worse, self-loathing.

Most parents send their children to Christian missionary schools under the impression of better discipline and English proficiency. But incidents like this must force a collective reckoning: Are these schools quietly eroding our culture, one lesson at a time?

Protect the Children, Preserve the Civilization

This case is not just a legal matter. It is a civilizational alert. A child is punished for greeting with “Radhe Radhe”. We must ask, how many more are being silenced without anyone noticing?

The battle isn’t just for territory or politics, it’s for the soul of Bharat. And it starts in our classrooms.