School Textbooks
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‘Socialist’, ‘Secular’ missing from Preamble on Class 10 textbook cover in Telangana
The error was an inadvertent one as the correct version has been printed inside the book, said the state education research body.
Scroll Staff
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‘Normalises violent masculinity’: Delhi child rights body asks NCERT to remove chapter from textbook
The chapter in the Class 9 English textbook depicts women in stereotypical ways and teaches children to accept violence at home, the panel alleged.
Scroll Staff
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Rajasthan government removes Savarkar’s ‘Veer’ honorific in Class 12 history textbook
The Ashok Gehlot-led government also made changes in other textbooks following the recommendations of a textbook review committee.
Scroll Staff
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Rajasthan modifies Savarkar chapter in textbooks, he is no longer described as ‘brave revolutionary’
Education Minister Govind Singh Dotasra said it was not right to glorify Hindutva ideologues such as Savarkar and Deendayal Upadhyaya.
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Opinion: Why it’s essential for school students to learn about religious violence in ancient India
Historian DN Jha’s ‘Against the Grain’, which challenges the Hindutva depiction of Indian history, could serve as a model for tackling this in textbooks.
Ajaz Ashraf
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Indian textbook publisher S Chand starts a new chapter by listing in the stock market
The sector is estimated to be worth $90 billion and is expected to reach $188 billion by 2020.
Manu Balachandran, qz.com
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Watch: Classical dancers perform Bharatnatyam and Odissi duet to ‘Sakal Ban’ from ‘Heeramandi’
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Watch: Two musicians simultaneously play the violin with one hand and the piano with another
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Caught on camera: Streaking meteorite turns night sky blue across Portugal and Spain
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Watch: Ed Sheeran sings Punjabi remix of ‘Shape of You’, accompanied by Bhangra dancers
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Wait for a kitten to die in a closed box to learn about air, suggests a Class 4 textbook
A federation of animal rights groups has asked PP Publications to stop distributing the environmental science book, ‘Our Green World’.
Scroll Staff
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Why don’t our textbook publishers want to pay fiction writers?
Is this why textbooks continue to carry stories and poems by long-dead writers who won’t claim payment?
Subhadra Sen Gupta