Source: Twitter
A few days after Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani criticised what children are taught in 4th standard, a trend emerged on Twitter on Wednesday demanding to remove Mughals from books taught in school. In Rajya Sabha last week, Irani was furious how children are taught Hindu-Christian riots in Kanyakumari and stories against Shivaji.
The hashtag #RemoveMughalsFromBooks has been the top trend on the microblogging site; inevitably, Twitterati can’t stop talking about it. There are people who vehemently want to remove them and there are people who think it’s impossible to remove an integral era from history and it shouldn’t be.
And then there are people who are making full use of the trend to crack jokes:
#RemoveMughalsFromBooks today. What’s next? Pull down the Red Fort and Taj Mahal? Our heritage has to be preserved, not destroyed.
— Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) March 2, 2016
#RemoveMughalsFromBooks Really liked that Gowarikar movie Jodha Akash
— dorku (@Dorkstar) March 2, 2016
We can #RemoveMughalsFromBooks
But where will Qutub Minar go?— Rana Safvi رعنا राना (@iamrana) March 2, 2016
We can #RemoveMughalsFromBooks and just tell our future generations that the documents dating from 1526 to 1707 were stolen by Umar Khalid!
— Ratnpriya Mishra (@jimmy9_girl) March 2, 2016
#RemoveMughalsFromBooks and put them in PDF form for ease of access please.
— Introverted Alien (@itzmenani) March 2, 2016
#RemoveAlgebraFromMaths before #RemoveMughalsFromBooks please
— Tyrantasorus (@tyrantasorus) March 2, 2016
If Sanghis want to #RemoveMughalsFromBooks, who built the Taj Mahal? Martians? It’s imposible to remove Mughals from Indian History.
— Koba El Tigre (@KobaElTigre) March 2, 2016
#RemoveMughalsFromBooks
But Don’t remove ‘Chicken mughlai’ frm menu cards! 😂— Optimus Prime (@Shine_Dat) March 2, 2016