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Government and Policy

‘Include section on Vedas, review portrayal of freedom fighters in school textbooks’: Parliamentary Committee on Education

OpIndia Staff - 30 November, 2021

A Parliamentary committee on education has stated that educational content for students should be "free of biases".

Entertainment

“It projects hatred towards British,” said filmmaker Indraadip Dasgupta while rejecting Sardar Udham’s entry to Oscar 2022

OpIndia Staff - 25 October, 2021

A film based on one of the bloodiest parts of our history is 'too Indian' and 'hateful towards British' to be part of Oscars, as per jury member Indraadip Dasgupta

News Reports

Author Vikram Sampath hits back at ‘historians’ and trolls who attacked him for saying that history textbooks give prominence to Muslim invaders

OpIndia Staff - 13 October, 2021

Historian Vikram Sampath hits back at 'historians' and trolls with evidence how history textbooks glorify Muslim and ignore indigenous rulers

News Reports

Govt of India’s Know India website hails Mughal rule as ‘greatest ever’, Ministry issues clarification

OpIndia Staff - 23 August, 2021

Ministry of Culture's website hails Mughal rule as 'greatest empire ever'.

Opinions

School textbooks: Tools of knowledge or weapons of cultural genocide?

R S - 12 August, 2021

Narratives are not the truth; rather they nudge you to understand the truth in a particular way. They are never neutral or innocent; they are always strategic.

News Reports

Overemphasis on Mughals, caste issues, no mention of Hindu kings, saints: Think-tank flags distortion in NCERT books before Parliamentary panel

OpIndia Staff - 10 July, 2021

Think-tank tells parliamentary committee on education that NCERT books pay disproportionately high attention to Mughal rulers.

News Reports

After humiliating Hindu students, Rutgers issues a follow up ‘apology’, but stays silent on alleged ‘historian’ Audrey Truschke: What we know so far

OpIndia Staff - 13 March, 2021

The Rutgers University, which has backed Audrey Truschke and her bigotry against Hindus, said that they value Hindu students

News Reports

As #RacistRutgers trends on Twitter, read details of the accusations against Audrey Truschke by Rutgers University students

OpIndia Staff - 9 March, 2021

Students accused Audrey Truschke of advocating that Hinduism is inherently oppressive, racist, misogynistic, and violent.

News Reports

Activist sends legal notice to make amends in NCERT books after RTI reveals no evidence of Mughals giving grant for temple repairs

OpIndia Staff - 4 March, 2021

RTI activist says history should be based on facts and not imagination and hence has sought to make amendments to books which claim Mughal rulers like Aurangzeb gave grants for temple repair work.

News Reports

‘Indian history was written by colonisers or their slaves, it is being undone now’: PM Modi inaugurates Maharaja Suheldev Memorial UP

OpIndia Staff - 16 February, 2021

PM Modi virtually laid the foundation stone of Maharaj Suheldev Memorial and a host of other beautification and development projects in UP’s Bahraich.

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