The latest revisions in NCERT Political Science textbooks are troubling. Critical thinking must be developed in students but teaching them that political parties disregard equality to privilege minorities is politically loaded. Why revise textbooks piecemeal when a comprehensive curriculum revision exercise is underway? NCERT must remind itself of its autonomy.
Beef-in-the-fridge crime and punishment saga is back. Extra-constitutional justice in MP will backfire
The beef-in-the-fridge crime and punishment saga is back, now in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandla. Dadri’s Akhlaq was bludgeoned to death by villagers. This time, it’s the officials who bulldozed Muslim homes. There are laws to try cow slaughter culprits. Summary justice can be politically beneficial but is extra-constitutional, and ultimately backfires.