Thanks Steve, for reminding me of the Harrison Bergeron reference, very apt, it's been a while since I read Vonnegut. (I didn't know who George Santos is .. but now I know a bit about him).
In the meantime, green shoots emerge with the few remaining educated people in Modi's party beginning to denounce him. The influential HINDUNEWS.STREAM which reaches 2 million subscribers carries a speech made a few hours back by a respected Hindu ideologue to a group of school teachers ,which pulls no punches against the decisions to delete Darwin and also the periodic table from India's text books. https://www.hindunews.stream/ On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 2:47 AM Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > feeling a little like the cross product of (Vonnegut) Harrison Bergeron > and George Santos ? > On 6/1/23 12:07 PM, Sarbajit Roy wrote: > > Hi Glen > > In so far as the report of dropping the periodic table and evolution from > the Class 10 syllabus, it is essentially a question of Hindu class and > caste dynamics operating in India. > >
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