The controversy over textbook revision doesn’t seem to be ending. Two days after Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai tried to end the row, Rohith Chakratirtha, the head of the now-dissolved textbook revision committee, is accused of dropping the lesson on Kannada Rajyotsava from the class 6 Kannada language textbook.
Social media posts suggested that the committee dropped a lesson on Bhuvaneshwari procession (Taayi Bhuvaneshwari Meravanige) from the class 6 Kannada textbook.
“Chapter of the Sirigannada first language textbooks for class 6 had the Meravanige, as per the syllabus set by the previous committee. The lesson that explained the Kannada Rajyotsava has been dropped now,” a Kannada activist alleged.
That’s not all. A lesson on the Siddaroodha Mutt annual festival has replaced the Kannada Rajyotsava lesson. “They even removed the picture of goddess Bhuvaneshwari and added a saffron flag,” another activist said.
The textbook revision committee is said to have attributed a song written by Chi Udayashankar to R N Jayagopal. Aadisi Nodu Beelisi Nodu, a song used in the Kannada film Kasturi Nivasa and written by Udayashankar, has been attributed to Jayagopal in the textbook, it alleged.