Controversy over the statement 'ass is better than wife' in textbooks!

The Dhaka Times Desk No one ever thought that such a word or such a subject could be in the textbook. But such an incident really happened in India. A debate has started over the statement 'Donkey is better than wife' in the textbook of a school there!

This kind of information is published not only in text books of Maharashtra, India but also in text books of different parts of India. Due to which the debate has started on the matter.

Chapter III of the Class XII Social Science textbook published by the Maharashtra Board states, 'If a marriageable woman is ugly and particularly capable, it becomes difficult to marry her.
Then a pledge is demanded from the husband's side and the daughter's party is forced to pay the pledge'.

Maharashtra's Higher Education Minister Vinod Tabde commented in this context that one should have been more careful while writing about a stigmatized aspect of the society. 'Living Thing' and 'Non-Living Thing' are explained in class IV environment books in many schools in Delhi. It is said to put the kitten in a sterile box and wait. It also says to wait until the kitten dies.

The Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organizations has opposed such information published in textbooks. After this, many schools started to gradually remove this curriculum.

A map of the Maharashtra Board Geography book showed Arunachal Pradesh as part of China, which made a lot of fuss. The board later apologized for this.

In 2014, Gujarat government school textbooks also contained some such controversial information. In the class seven sociology text book of the government school it was said that 'Japan dropped atomic bomb on USA during World War II'! Even Mahatma Gandhi's death anniversary is wrongly printed in the same text book.

In the ninth class Hindi textbook published by the Rajasthan Education Department, it was written - 'Donkeys are better than wives. Because if you feed a donkey, it works all day long. No one disobeys the word of the Lord. Not even complaining. However, wives do.'

India's influential Bengali daily Anandabazar Patrika reported that AR Khan, director of the Rajasthan Education Department, also argued in favor of the content of the text that 'the comparison was drawn in jest'. Later, however, this subject was removed from the textbook.