{"id":31346,"date":"2017-01-23T19:53:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T14:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=31346"},"modified":"2017-01-23T19:53:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T14:23:44","slug":"now-shashi-tharoor-says-ramayana-mahabharata-taught-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=31346","title":{"rendered":"Now Shashi Tharoor Says Ramayana And Mahabharata Should Be Taught In Our Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just two days after Manmohan Vaidya, head of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh&#8217;s communications department, batted for revamping the education system based on &#8220;the ethos and history of our nation&#8221;, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor here on Sunday expressed his thoughts in a similar vein.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-quote fb_iframe_widget\"><\/div>\n<p><div style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" id=\"ed-img\" class=\" td-modal-image\" title=\" Shashi Tharoor,\" src=\"http:\/\/media.indiatimes.in\/media\/content\/2017\/Jan\/83015fad-4c72-4cba-9ec1-79edae19b2d0_1485158854.jpg\" alt=\" Shashi Tharoor,\" width=\"700\" height=\"499\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">BCCL<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nTharoor was participating in a session on &#8220;Remembering the Raj&#8221; at the ongoing Jaipur Literature Festival. In response to a question from the audience, the Congress MP expressed his desire for changes in the education system to include the &#8220;Indian civilisational aspects&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"middle-ads line-bg\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The British wanted to colonise the Indian mind. Whatever education was brought to India that was to further strengthen the Raj and to colonise our behaviour.<br \/>\n&#8220;It is sad that even after 70 years, though we study Shakespeare, we have not been teaching Kalidasa to our children,&#8221; Tharoor said.<br \/>\n&#8220;I am very much in favour of having Ramayana and Mahabharata taught in our schools. This should be seen as enriching our education system with our cultural heritage,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" id=\"ed-img\" class=\" td-modal-image\" title=\" Shashi Tharoor,\" src=\"http:\/\/media.indiatimes.in\/media\/content\/2017\/Jan\/0889d7ba-faa7-44c9-8bd9-7b7d8cd0a638_1485158854.jpg\" alt=\" Shashi Tharoor,\" width=\"700\" height=\"484\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">BCCL<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nTharoor, however, expressed his disapproval on &#8220;injecting a particular political ideology&#8221; into the education system and contented that &#8220;only the civilisational aspect should be introduced in our text books&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"middle-ads line-bg\"><\/div>\n<p>A regular at the Jaipur Literature Festival, Tharoor is among the biggest crowd pullers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just two days after Manmohan Vaidya, head of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh&#8217;s communications department, batted for revamping the education system based on &#8220;the ethos and history of our nation&#8221;, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor here on Sunday expressed his thoughts in a similar vein. Tharoor was participating in a session on &#8220;Remembering the Raj&#8221; at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1184],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}