First, we speak to The Indian Express’ Pallavi Smart about Maharashtra’s revised Class 6 textbooks, the greater emphasis on ancient Indian knowledge, and the removal or rewriting of passages dealing with caste and social inequality.
Next, we speak to The Indian Express’ Nikhil Ghanekar about the environmental cost of rising tourism and large-scale development in Himachal Pradesh, and the measures recommended by a Supreme Court-appointed committee. (08:00)
And in the end, we look at a Chhattisgarh family’s search for 21-year-old Vineet Kumar Dubey after a job offer took him to Russia, where he was reportedly detained amid fears that he could be drawn into the war in Ukraine. (24:05)
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