Circular to schools on R-Day fete

Meanwhile, the poor awareness about India’s history was much evident among a group of Std. IX students participating in a leadership training programme at Sir J J Fort Girl’s High School on Saturday. When queried by this reporter about freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose one student replied, “He ran away from the country when other leaders were fighting the British.” Another had a definite opinion on Gandhi’s contribution to the evolution of Ahimsa’ – “How can he take credit about Ahimsa? I am Christian. Ahimsa principles are there in our Bible from which he has taken his cue.” Commenting on the poor sense of history veteran educationist Arvind Trivedi felt, “History textbooks need to be national in character rather than the prevailing regional bias in the syllabus.”