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In today’s featured cartoon, Nala Ponnappa opines on what the 1960 classic Mughal-e-Azam would be called were it released in 2023 — a reference to National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) scrapping chapters on the Mughal Empire from Class 12 history textbooks.
Sajith Kumar comments on the purported campaign to erase Mughal history from school curricula in the backdrop of China ‘standardising‘ the names of places in Arunachal Pradesh in an unfounded bid to lay claim to parts of Indian territory.
Alluding to the erasure of chapters on Mughal history from NCERT textbooks, E.P. Unny gives his take on a Manhattan grand jury indicting former US president Donald Trump on 34 felony counts in a case where he is accused of orchestrating ‘hush-money’ payments to two women to silence them from publishing details of their sexual encounters with him.
Kirtish Bhatt, too, comments on the removal of chapters on Mughal history from NCERT textbooks. In the illustration, a student is telling another, “I wish that a connection between mathematics and the Mughals comes to light.”
Satish Acharya draws on the controversy surrounding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s college degree days after the Gujarat HC ruled that the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) need not furnish the PM’s degree and post-graduate degree certificates.