Amid the #MeToo era, the worldwide public outcry against sexual assault on women, an elementary-school textbook taught students to wear correct, covered clothes to avoid sexual attacks. The educational material taught girls to be ashamed of their bodies, and shifts the blame from the perpetrator to the survivor of sexual assault. Titled[Read More…]
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Bengal textbook carries Farhan Akhtar photo for Milkha Singh
Are the portrayals of a character in any movie so strong that they overshadow the real figure? Something like this happened in Bengal when a textbook used the picture of Farhan Akhtar instead of Milkha Singh. Farhan Akhtar played the character of Milkha Singh in Rakesh Omprakash Mehra’s Bhaag Milkha[Read More…]
ICSE textbook refers to mosque as source of ‘noise pollution’
While religious tensions continue to intensify in our secular country, an image of Class 5 textbook taught in ICSE schools portraying a “mosque” as a source of noise pollution had sparked outrage on social media. However, soon after the criticism, the publisher apologised and the promise that the picture would[Read More…]