Nothing makes me happier than the churn we are currently witnessing in our highly Western-biased, and, frankly, outdated education system. India’s most prominent living historical figure, Samrat Akshay Bhatia Twinklenath, set the ball rolling by talking of the mass ignoring of certain kings in history books. So filled was I with pride, that I binge-watched Singh Is King and Singh is Bling. Then came R. Madhavan, who highlighted the significance of the panchangam in astrophysics. More good news came via a ‘position paper on knowledge of India’ from Karnataka that rightfully pointed out that the Pythagoras theorem was fake news. Finally, our scholars are belling that elusive billi.
Naturally, this has prompted me to bring a few other glaring omissions in not just our history and science books, but our geography and recipe books, too, so that future generations of the world’s most populous country are educated right.
Abraham Lincoln, my foot
