People's Democracy
(Weekly
Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
No. 45
November 06, 2005
(Weekly
Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
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No. 45 November 06, 2005 |
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AT a time when the government is contemplating setting up a textbook council to monitor contents, here is how the states can completely disregard it.
More than three months after HRD minister Arjun Singh wrote to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi about "objectionable" contents in the social studies state textbooks, the latter has chosen to remain silent..… So far, Modi has not replied and HRD sources feel he is not likely to join issue......
The class IX social studies textbook, brought out by the Gujarat Textbook Board in 2005, does not mention the holocaust and instead glorifies Hitler. The book says, "Hitler adopted aggressive policy and led the Germans towards ardent nationalism….In thinking of Nazism, there is coordination of nationalism and socialism"..... Similarly, the class X book says, "Hitler lent dignity and prestige to the German government with in a short time by establishing a strong administrative set-up…. He instilled the spirit of adventure in the common people."
— The Times of India, October 22
VICE-president Dick Cheney makes only three brief appearances in the 22 page federal indictment that charges his chief of staff, I Lewis Libby Jr, with lying to investigators and misleading a grand jury in the CIA leak case. But in its clear, cold language, it lifts a veil on how aggressively Cheney’s office drove the rationale against Saddam Hussein and then fought to discredit the Iraq war’s critics. The document now raises a central question: how much collateral damage has Cheney sustained?
— The Times of India, October 31
POOR countries across Africa, Central America and the Car ibbean are losing sometimes staggering portions of their college educated workers to wealthy democracies, according to a World Bank study released on Monday (October 24).
The findings are based on an extensive survey of census and other data from the 30 countries in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, which includes most of the world’s richest nations.
The study found that from a quarter to almost half of the college educated citizens of poor countries like Ghana, Mozambique, Kenya, Uganda and El Salvador lived abroad in an OECD country — a fraction that rises to more than 80 per cent for Haiti and Jamaica.
— The Times of India, October 26
