K’taka saffronising school texts: Panel

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Anubhuti Vishnoi: New Delhi, Jan 17 2013, 00:13 IST

that there is a clear anti-minority bias in content depicting Muslim kings as persecuting Hindu subjects and Hindu kings only fighting Muslim kings. An instance from the class VIII Hindi textbook refers to a lesson on ‘Punyakoti’ where a tiger takes an oath saying that “consumption of cow’s meat is a bad thought; henceforth, I will not eat cow’s meat”, whereas the original Kannada version mentions no such oath.

Demanding that the school textbooks be offered for scrutiny by the NCERT, the committee has suggested that the Karnataka Textbook Society, when preparing new textbooks, should consult its counterparts in Kerala who are considered experts in the field and invite suggestions from eminent educationists and the public.

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wow

afzal | 17-Jan-2013Reply | Forward

Now politicians are peeping into education, thats cool, now our your kids will be ruined in their hands.

It is time to completely separate Veer Savarkar's Hindutva ideolgy from this Dhongi Majority of RSS and VHP

Gaurav | 17-Jan-2013Reply | Forward

The biggest problem of our societal set-up is that our education system and our up-bringing are influenced by biases, political vested interests, power hungry desires and AHAM BRAHMASMI (I am the only great) attitudes. Events and realities in the history of this sub-continent are distorted within seconds on the basis of religion,faiths,castes, etc. to extract immediate benefit to RULE THE MASSES as it is the most easiest way to motivate and attract crazy empty brains at will. Hinduism is absolutely not a religion it is just a way of life. The word Hindu itself is a PERSIAN word which originates from the river Sindhu. At the same time, these committees should be replaced by eminent un-biased intellectuals who have the guts to introduce and safeguard the real historical events in the schooling literature. It is unfortunate that the painful work and sacrifice of V.D Savarkar has gone waste. Both, the Congis and the so-called Right Fascists have exploited the word HINDU.

Shocking

raj | 17-Jan-2013Reply | Forward

Shocking I would say. We have heard Taliban and Irans Aytollahs doing the same to women and the people of those nations. But to see in a so called modern democratic India this is shocking. The netas after robbing the roads, banks, our childrens education, rivers, massive looting have finally arrived to the core - train people to become pigs. That is what pakistan, srilanka, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Mali forces all do. It is good BJP is competing with medieval islamists to get a spot in the same pedastal.