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ISCE Class 6 Textbook Shows ‘Mosque-Like’ Structure As Noise Pollutant, Publishers Apologise.

byRachna Srivastava
3rd July 2017
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In Indian Textbooks, one finds things that are true specimens of stuff you’d never teach your kids. From their trying to demonstrate a science experiment by putting a kitten in a box to ugliness being cited as a reason for dowry, you’d find elements of absurdity in them. Like, loads of them.

Now, class VI Integrated Science textbook is under the scanner for listing a Mosque-like structure as a noise pollutant.

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It was originally tweeted by Zulqarnain Bhaisaheb, who questioned does azaan cause noise pollution?

We are instinctively reminded of Sonu Nigam’s azaan row.

 

Soon, Twitter started pouring in reactions and it got the attention.

 

In the meantime, a petition, by Masood Pasha, started doing rounds. It demanded the removal of the pictorial that shows noise pollution from various sources, a mosque-like structure being one of them. The petition got more than 6000 supporters till Sunday.

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The book is published by Selina Publishers and the publishers have, in a note, expressed regret and promised to remove the pictorial.

“The diagram on page 202 of our publication integrated science for Class-VI has a structure resembling a portion of a fort and other noise producing objects in a noisy city. We apologise if it has hurt the sentiments of anyone. This is to inform all concerned that we will be changing the picture in our subsequent editions of the book.”

 

The board (CISCE) maintained that it is an issue school should deal with because it doesn’t publish or prescribe textbooks. Waiving responsibilities?

Are we really teaching this to our kids?

H/T: Deccan Herald

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