New Delhi: Under attack over the cartoon row, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday acknowledged that cartoons on the political class should not find a place in textbooks as they influence the impressionable minds of students.
Holding that the issue is not about the content of the cartoons but about their inclusion in textbooks, he said the impression should not go to the world that the political class is corrupt and bereft of any principles.
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02:04 AM, May 15, 2012
Goons went on a rampage at the office of former NCERT Professor Suhas Palshikar in Pune, a day after he resigned over the controversial cartoon of Dr BR Ambedkar. ...
08:53 AM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: Former NCERT adviser Professor Suhas Palshikar's Pune University office was allegedly attacked and ransacked by an unidentified group over the row on the 63-year-old cartoon of BR Ambdekar. Earlier on Friday, Palshikar had quit as the NCERT advisor after the NCERT was forced to withdraw the sketch from school textbooks. This came after MPs across party lines objected and caused a ruckus in Parliament. Sources said the cartoon...
08:38 AM, May 13, 2012
Goons in Pune went on a rampage at the office of Professor Suhas Palshikar against the so called derogatory cartoon of BR Ambedkar. ...
11:49 PM, May 12, 2012
Mumbai: The images of intolerance. Professor Suhas Palshikar, who resigned as chief advisor to the NCERT over the row surrounding a BR Ambedkar cartoon was threatened by members of a fringe group and his office was vandalised too. Palshikar said, "People who have masterminded the act are more important rather than those who have done it. Attackers are simply instrument." Former NCERT advisor Yogendra Yadav said, "I spoke to him...
09:17 PM, May 12, 2012
Pune: Former NCERT adviser Professor Suhas Palshikar's Pune University office was allegedly attacked and ransacked by an unidentified group over the row on the 63-year-old cartoon of BR Ambdekar. Speaking about the incident, Palshikar told CNN-IBN that two to three men had attacked the NCERT advisor's office. Reportedly, they told him that they were upset with the cartoon. The miscreants were allegedly from the Panther's Party, which is reportedly close...
03:02 PM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: Following the uproar over the controversial cartoon picture of BR Ambedkar in a textbook, NCERT advisors Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar resigned on Friday. Yadav and Palshikar were chief advisors for political science at the NCERT. However, BR Ambedkar's grandson has said that Ambedkar wouldn't have opposed the cartoon. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Prakash Ambedkar said, "The cartoon represented the year 1949 when Ambedkar himself was alive. I have...
08:02 AM, May 12, 2012
Kapil Sibal said that the issue had come to his notice in April and an order had been sent to the NCERT regarding the same. ...
11:52 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: Following the uproar over the controversial cartoon picture of BR Ambedkar in a textbook, NCERT advisors Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar resigned on Friday. Yadav and Palshikar were chief advisors for political science at the NCERT. Defending the move, Yadav said "it's a travesty to my mind to read a cartoon in such a manner". "The heated and not very well informed debate in the Parliament did not...
07:21 PM, May 11, 2012
