Cartoon Click: NCERT on ‘Control, Alt, Delete’ Spree
First the Mughal Empire, then Mahatma Gandhi and now Maulana Abul Kalam Azad has been removed from NCERT textbooks.
First, the NCERT removed the biography of Mahatama Gandhi from textbooks, and now it has deleted references to India’s first education minister Abul Kalam Azad.
In a bid to ‘reboot’ the country’s history to please their political masters, should we now wait for an official change in the country’s Independence Day – from 1947 to 2014?
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