Textbook Politics
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Rajasthan teachers tried – and failed – to counter textbooks rewritten to serve Hindutva propaganda
Even though they recognised the dangers of the new textbooks, the resource-starved school system left teachers with few options.
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
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Inspired by the RSS, dictated by BJP minister: The inside story of Rajasthan’s textbook revisions
Books published by the RSS’s education wing were held up as a role model in a government meeting.
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
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BJP’s major achievement in Rajasthan: Rewriting school textbooks to reflect RSS worldview
The new textbooks are not part of the election conversation but their impact could be long-lasting. The first in a three-part series.
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
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British businessman wins defamation case against Republic Bharat for calling him an ISI ‘stooge’
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‘Media, politicians totally clueless’: Sudhir Chaudhary on Zee News before leaving the channel
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The arrest of an activist in Manipur has resurfaced ethnic tensions
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‘Will facts make India the vishwaguru?’: Comedian satirises anchor Anjana Om Kashyap’s show
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‘I hang my head in shame,’ says Kapil Sibal on the state of judiciary
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DU professor explains why ‘university Dronacharyas’ want Kancha Ilaiah’s books dropped from syllabus
N Sukumar, professor of political science, says he is prepared to go to court to challenge the removal of the books on the Dalit perspective.
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
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RSS sets up panel to supervise saffronisation of education
Dinanath Batra will lead a committee that seems strangely like the Congress government's National Advisory Council, which the Bharatiya Janata Party had roundly criticised.
Dhirendra K Jha
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Blowing birthday candles is against Indian culture, says man who is now on Gujarat school library reading lists
The state has chosen nine books by Dina Nath Batra, the man who filed cases against Indologist Wendy Doniger's books on Hinduism, as supplementary literature meant to impart quality education.
Aarefa Johari
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‘What a difference in society between then and now’: 50th anniversary of London’s Pride parade
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‘Will facts make India the vishwaguru?’: Comedian satirises anchor Anjana Om Kashyap’s show
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‘The art of hating has been cultivated with extraordinary skill’: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen
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Mumbai: Protests erupt against new state government’s decision to move metro car shed back to Aarey