The Issue There has been a recent furor over the Maharashtra Government declaring that it had decided to derecognize madrassas that give students education only on religion, without imparting formal education like English, Maths and Science subjects. The registered madrassa not teaching primary subjects will be classified by the state government as “non-schools” and children […]
மொழியும் மதமும். Language and Religion
Excerpt from a newspaper article BJP campaign to “rescue” Tamil from atheism: The BJP is looking to build a campaign to “reconstruct” the identity of the Tamil language and “rescue” it from “atheistic propaganda.” … “These organisations (Dravidian and Tamil Nationalist) have created an image that religion and Tamil were independent of each other” says […]
