"On June 1, India cut a slew of foundational topics from tenth grade textbooks, including the periodic table of elements, Darwin's theory of evolution, the Pythagorean theorem, sources of energy, sustainable management of natural resources and contribution of agriculture to the national economy..."
"#Serbia, #Poland and the #Netherlands have also had issues with teaching evolution in schools. In 2017, Turkey dropped it. Saudi Arabia, Oman, Algeria and Morocco have banned the teaching of evolution completely. In Egypt and Tunisia, evolution is presented as an unproven hypothesis. "
Update: More than 200 people are dead and hundreds more injured, many still trapped, after trains collide in Odisha, #India, according to state officials.
A panning on the #camera that went well. That river in the middle is what separates #India from #Myanmar. On the right is Myanmar (Chin state) and on the left is India (Champhai state). Circa when a military coup happened and when the situation had cooled down a bit. Was advised not to stay the night on the Myanmar side so crossed the bridge around sunset, stayed in a local hotel, and came back to the Myanmar side during daylight.
India is apparently being run by Ron DeSantis."Schoolchildren in India will no longer be taught about evolution, the periodic table of elements, sustainability, pollution or energy sources such as fossil fuels and renewables."
India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks - “There is a movement away from rational thinking, against the enlightenment and Western ideas” in India, adds Sucheta Mahajan, a historian at Jawaharlal Nehru University who collaborates with Mukherjee on studies of RSS influence on school texts. Evolution conflicts with creation stories, adds Mukherjee. History is the main target, but “science is one of the victims”, she adds. #india#education#indianaffairs#science#fundamentalism#hindu#hinduism#hindutva#hinduextremists#rsshttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01770-y
Meanwhile in #india their National Council of Educational Research and Training seems to think #pollution#evolution and #democracy are not that relevant, so they removed them from the curriculum of most students.
"India cuts periodic table [energy sources, pollution] and evolution from school textbooks
The news that evolution would be cut from the curriculum for students aged 15–16 was widely reported last month, when thousands of people signed a petition in protest. But official guidance has revealed that a chapter on the periodic table will be cut, too, along with other foundational topics such as sources of energy and environmental sustainability. Younger learners will no longer be taught certain pollution- and climate-related topics, and there are cuts to biology, chemistry, geography, mathematics and physics subjects for older school students.
Overall, the changes affect some 134 million 11–18-year-olds in India’s schools"
Interesting. Top locations for my #music on #SoundCloud over the past week are Cairo, Giza and Jakarta. The world map indicating where music is played is filling in, but nobody in western #Europe or #Africa has listened to a single tune yet. Same for #India. #Pakistan has listened, lol.
I have 1 play from Iran. Guessing they banned the rest.
Western Europe, eh? I should tag all music posts with #Eurovision, lol.
India's president – India's first Adivasi (Indigenous) president – was sidelined from the parliament building inauguration because Modi wanted all the attention on him. What a shame! #India
BJP MP makes it clear that India will be ruled by the principles of Dharma — which is specified in the Dharma shastras like Manusmriti — and not the Constitution. #India
If President Droupadi Murmu were to inaugurate the new parliament building, it would have looked jarring to see an Adivasi woman perform Brahminical rituals. Though she would not minded doing it considering she subscribes to the Hindu nationalist ideology. #India
#MastIndia : is it possible for people still on #Bigsocial (such as instagram) to try and get the indian LGBTQ+ community pages on there to also set up pages on #pixelfed and #mastodon and help them understand the #fedi ?