Follow up to Beef-eating Aryans post

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http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5922_1709385,0015002500030002.htm

 

NCERT books torched for wrong message

HT Correspondent

Varanasi, May 30

 

MEMBERS OF the Ved Prachar Mandal and Panini Kanya Mahavidyalaya on Tuesday

torched the books of NCERT at Lanka crossing for spreading wrong message

that the Aryans used to eat ‘cow-flesh and eggs’.

 

Infuriated over the misinformation being carried by the National Council for

Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in its textbooks, the

intellectuals registered their protest in the strongest possible words and

challenged the author of book for an open debate over this issue.

 

Members of the Ved Prachar Mandal and Panini Kanya Mahavidyalaya raised

slogans such as ‘NCERT Murdabad Murdabad’, ‘Bhartiya Sanskriti Se Khelwad

Karne Wale Gaddar Hain’, ‘Go Hamari Mata Hain and Mata Ka Apman Karne Wale

Ko Phansi Do’.

 

Principal of Panini Kanya Mahavidyalaya Medha Devi claimed, “This wrong

message is baseless as there was no such information that Aryans used to eat

‘cow-flesh’ in any ‘Vedic Granth’ of Indian culture. She alleged that it was

a well-planned strategy to disseminate misinformation among the future

generation of our country.”

 

“Aryna is a collective noun of good practices and spreading misinformation

through textbook is a nefarious design to defame our ancestors and rich

Indian history”, she said, adding, “Such types of misinformation are

dangerous for Indian culture.”

 

Medha Devi and other intellectuals invited the authors of books (carrying

text that Aryans used to eat cow-flesh and eggs) for an open debate

‘shashtrartha’ to assess the credibility of this ‘misinformation’ either in

Delhi or Kashi (Varanasi).

 

Dr. Santosh Ojha and Ashok Tripathi also criticised the NCERT for spreading

wrong information.