6 Periyar Speaks: Why Brahmins Hate
Reservation?
9 Thus Spake Ambedkar: Who are Dravidians?
12 UFO Identification Process – Joe Nickell and
James McGaha
16 One nation, One election is an Assault on
Federalism – A.G. Noorani
18 Cover Story: Draft National Education
Policy 2019 Going Back to the Vedic Age
– Dr. K. Veeramani
21 Union Budget 2019 : Dr. K. Veeramani
23 Language Issues in the Constituent
Assembly – Dr. A. Ramasamy
26 Two Language Policy, Ideal for the Unity of
India – nietzsche
27 Reservation for EWS – A slow poison to Social
Justice – V. Kumaresan
29 ‘Viduthalai 85’ – Turbulant Journey of the ‘Only
Rationalist Daily’ of the World
32 Book Scan: Unintelligent Design – Harriet Hall:
Review of the book, The Not-So-Intelligent
Designer: Why Evolution Explains the Human
Body and Intelligent Design Does not, written
by Abby Haffer
Lovable Life: Some Rare Information for a Healthy
Life – Dr. K. Veeramani
connected to faith as science. The saffron
ideology claims its root from Vedas. The Vedic
knowledge was categorized as various branches
as so called science subjects viz. Ayurveda,
Yoga, Jyotir Vignam (astrology), Karmakanda
(religious rituals), Vedic Mathematics etc.
The process of faith based Vedic knowledge
was branded as branches of science. This
process was started from the Vajpayee regime
silently without giving room for any difference,
discussion or debate.
Branding of educational approach was
given much attention. When it is Hindutva
inculcation, it would create a lot of resistance
and opposition. In order to overcome this,
the saffronists have branded the educational
approach as ‘Indianisation’, ‘Nationalisation’ or
‘Spritualisation’, but in practice all of them are
nothing but saffronisation.
Another major thrust given by the BJP rulers
was changing the educational text in favour
of Hindutva ideology and the consequent
propaganda. The Ministry of HRD has got many
educational agencies under its control like
UGC, (University Grant Commission), NCERT
(National Council for Education Research and
Training), ICHR (Indian Council of Historical
Research), ASI (the Archaeological Survey of
India), ICSSR (Indian Council of Social Science
Research), the Department of Culture, IGNCA
(the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts),
IIAS (the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies)
etc. Changing the heads of these agencies,
and placing a suitable person either saffron
ideologue or person who can meticulously
implement the ideological wishes of the rulers
were systematically carried out without minding
the criticisim about it in public domain.
The contemplated curriculum changes were
also made possible by replacing personnel
within these bodies to further the interests of
Hindutva.
It respect of curriculum change, the characters
of epics of Aryan literature, which had attributed
and patronised the discriminatory interests of
Vedic age were glorified and included as the
content of the text.