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we look at the outcry over the treatment of animals in captivity. ah, my name is melissa chant, thanks for joining us. the indian government is revising textbooks and creating controversy for its choices on what to leave out. gone our references to gandhi's opposition to hindu nationalism and chapters on the muggle dynasty of muslim rulers, contemporary events been cut include the 2002 googe, a rot, riots, violence that took place on prime minister and to render modi's watch when he was then the states chief minister, his ruling party says these changes are necessary blaming the former ruling, national congress party and left as historians for curricular that it says, have been divisive. t w's ideal, but reports from delhi. it is the new academic dome at the school in new delhi.

these 12th grade students are getting the 1st introduction to do wise text books on history and politics. students will no longer find the full back ground behind my my gone these assassin some chapters on hundreds of years of muslim rule in india and references to the 2000 to withdraw riots in which war 1000 people, mostly muslims, wife killed when prime. mr. moore, the we had in the state school principal who jam alotta is visiting the classroom today to breathe the students about the changes in the curriculum bed what there are some deleted portions. yes. as why she supports the textbook changes. i feel like everybody know that not what i'm going to has get. okay, gandhi, but you know, since it's related to the, in the muslim,

so it has been creating all of you and cry. it has been deleted. i feel it is good . the textbook is a good change which has been done. the curriculum has been improved. i. her school is just one of many that are mandated to introduce the new curriculum. in 23 states across india, thousands of classes will study you wise textbooks that critics say present a hindu nationalist region of the country. the revisions have sparked a national debate in new daily's joel on narrow university regular gatherings are taking place. could discuss ways of rolling back the data over he did it today. students are going to attend a public lecture by historian such them hodgin novel switch that has been teaching at the university for more than 3 decades to communion. she says the revisions made by india's national council of educational research and training are an attempt to

weaponized. and here is history pursued the government's political agenda. this present regime and its ancestors. the have made it an ideological weapon or 2 in their project political project. an intellectual cultural project author dawning this country into a hindu dominant countries. bgp spokesperson denot sharma strongly disagrees. she believes the changes when necessary corrections to what she says was until now, a broom, muslim curriculum. a curriculum she puts and tightly at the feet of the opposition congress body, if they could on the names of those people who were definitely in a fort against india and o, than in justice to india. but they have been glorified in the past books off history that and by congress government critics,

all the revisions feared that by rewriting history, a whole generation of students will grow up with a distorted an incomplete understanding of the nation. but wanting to sutton, the battle for india as boston is very much a battle for india's future. joining us as uganda yada former adviser to india's national council of educational research and training which produces textbooks for the federal level. thank you for joining our the program now, just to give our viewers who may not know too much about india. another example, i understand that information about darwin and evolution have also been removed from the exam syllabus. so what is going on here with all these changes? funny, you might think comically you might say, but what's happening is actually the tragic in many ways. because textbooks are

being rewritten, i would not say read written, these are being mutated they are, they are being scrapped. they are being donna bought by the country g. s, but it's ideological based. now, it must be, remember that these textbooks are the books made by the federal government, which i'm not pending tree, but it so happens that in most states of india, these are the books which have been for all these books are very extensively read written in year 2007, 956 and 7. and what was unusual about dual sticks books at that time and i was involved with that is that these books were very non partisan. these books were followed some of the best pedagogy good practices. but ever since the cont, reaching by mr. moody has come to power in year 2014. they have been tinkering these books every year or something on the other keeps happening. and what we have

seen now is one of the most extensive changes. pruning to suit the ideological taste. this has happened extensive being history in political science. and as you mentioned in science as well. i don't want to rehash something that happened a long time ago, but i understand he resigned a decade ago under criticism for some content you did remove it so it seems inevitable that people have different political persuasions. will want to contest the contents of school books, but it sounds like you think was happening now is somehow worse. and if so, why? in our case we resign because so we wrote something, the textbooks and the minister refused to defend the textbooks in the pond. and this was under the previous routine, and we thought it is only appropriate that books that have been written should be defended on the floor of the parliament when the minister did not defend reside,

but that was under the previous reaching next books all over the world are contested, there's absolutely no doubt because history is contested because the way to contest the present is to contest the past. that's exactly what's happening. and i'm sure that's been the case in germany as wait. now what the current regime is doing is to take out selectively bars from our past, from our order past, and from our recent past, which do not suited for instance, the fact that the father of our nation mart my god, he was assassinated and he was assassinated by someone who had it right when i did logical leanings, which are very close to the ideology of the political regime. this is a fact the government wants to take out this fact. just imagine the father of the nation was assassinated and they want to whitewash the fact that he was assassinated by someone with an ideal richie. this is what is creating the problem

. they want to carefully obliterate quietly. it is the facts of the influence of islam. luck on it, in history, you cannot completely take it away. but every year the take out wanting to ensure that india's history is seen mainly as a history of one single religion. how the students themselves feel about these changes just lost the students. but i guess textbooks do not translate them his directly to the students. it all depends on the teachers. it depends on the schools. it depends on the examination system. but notwithstanding all that, the fact is that if there is a book lying on your table, the book would bring, you said in fact, even if the teacher is not very enthusiastic about saying it. and in a culture like india, where in large number of homes, extra book is the only book

a we'll a bill in that house. the fact that x book brings matters. so the student is not just the student, it's also parents, it's about the household having certain facts that has been removed. yes, students feel that much of the content is being taken away. i'm sure they feel confused more than ever before. if you want to delete one phrase of in the us history, student will feel rapid confused. but i'm sure it's best to ask them directly. yeah, gander. yeah, thank you so much for joining us. ah, keep pakistan now where a sick elephant in karachi z u has died despite efforts to save her the suffering of newer johanna, as she was called, has renewed criticisms over pakistan's zoos, and whether they have the resources and expertise to meet international standards

for animal care. our report contains images that some might find upsetting tears for nur jahan the 17 year old elephant who has died at pakistan's karachi zoo . she was suffering from pre existing serious ailments. that's a debated whether she should be euthanized to after she fell. and upon last week, in the end, she was unable to get back up on her feet. they gave her new jaw, eager to say, no. john had been ill for a short time. it odd you her 11 days ago we took up her treatment very seriously. got up in bunny, i visited her then and started her treatment. we were here day and night to look after her. i myself didn't leave for 48 hours straight. rog, i'm karachi administration. would missouri daily for 6 to 7 hours. are actually the most important thing for us that was did she was an acid of karachi, a lot in the 8th of that other hemmed up he, on water as it had videos of nur jahan leaning against the side of her cage,

struggling to stay upright, sparked a wave of anguish in pakistan. she had a hematoma in her abdomen, as well as a broken pelvis and arthritis. pakistan is royals by an acute economic crisis. the turmoil has not only affected people, but also animals, karachi who has struggled to feed its animals and to pay for their care. nor john was brought to pakistan from tanzania, along with 3 other elephants. more than 12 years ago. her suffering came to embody the plight that captive wild animals sure around the world or death, a sparked calls for their better treatment and zoos. austrian animal welfare group for paul said in a tweet that nor johannes story was reminder of the suffering that captive wild animals endure in pakistan under round the world under reminder to do better for

paul's wants, the zoos other elephant ma, do bol out to be transferred to a more species appropriate location soon, su life can be extremely challenging for elephants in captivity, the animals are usually dead, but the time they reach 40. whereas elephants in the wild have a life expectancy of 60 to 70 years. that's all for now. there's more stories from the region on our website, d, w dot com, forward slash asia. we're back tomorrow to see you then reveal watching the same example, say o d, w regular scope. this week's episode is all about the power of music. we're going to go around and see what the 4th of august off when it comes to hip

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