Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge has said the textbook revision exercise done by the previous government in the state was flawed, and raised a question as to 'why children should study distorted history'.Kharge said this on Thursday in New ...
The state witnessed a massive row last year after the BJP government modified the textbooks and added a speech of RSS founder Hedgewar for the curriculum of Class X. The revised textbooks had also dropped works by literary figures like P Lankesh's ‘Mruga Mattu Sundari,' AN Murthi Rao's ‘Vyaghrageethe' and Sara Aboobacker's ‘Yuddha'
Last year a committee headed by Rohith Chakrathirtha deleted the glorifying parts of Mysuru ruler Tipu Sultan and added a speech of Hedgewar for Class 10 students in Karnataka.
'We have already formed a Cabinet and cleared most of the schemes... BJP has nothing to worry about. Kannadigas are in safe hands,' Priyank tells The Indian Express
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Today, Shivamogga is a mere shadow of the vibrant cultural centre it once was and is a distressing example of the gradual erosion of a progressive space for arts and culture because of a politics whose bedrock is fear, communalisation, and the indifference of civil society.
The controversies over changing the content of textbooks began in 2020, when some topics were removed to shorten the syllabus at a time when schools were shut for long periods due to the pandemic.