evidence: A video showing school girls flinging off their dupattas is being widely circulated with a claim that reads ‘Girls studying in a school for tribals (indigenous people) in Tamil Nadu are throwing away their dupatta (scarves) in protest against school uniforms that they think North Indian and patriarchal.’ Let’s fact-check the claim made in the post. [...] Fact: This incident took place at the government residential school in Tamil Nadu’s Kallakurichi. These girls in Tamil Nadu threw their dupattas welcoming a guest, Geeta Ilangovan, an author, who was supposed to address them. Multiple news agencies reported the incident. Speaking to Quint, Ilangovan said ‘the girls told her that they didn’t like to wear dupattas but were forced to’. However, neither the author nor the media reports claimed that students did so, as protest against the North Indian style. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE. The visuals in the viral video indeed show girl students flinging off their dupattas, however, they did not do this as part of a protest, but as a welcome gesture, for a guest.