‘Get uncovered to each type of pondering’: Kerala Guv on row over Hindutva literature in KU syllabus

By Express News Service

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: People needs to be prepared to check new concepts even when they’re repugnant to them, Governor Arif Mohammed Khan has stated. 

He was responding to the controversy over the inclusion of writings of Hindutva ideologues within the revised syllabus of MA Governance and Politics supplied by the Kannur University.

Students have to be uncovered to each type of pondering. Then solely they may develop the capability to suppose and provide you with new modern concepts. “Only those who have the capacity to come up with innovative ideas can progress in this world. People who feel uncomfortable with the study of diverse views are causing loss to themselves,” he advised reporters right here on Saturday. 

The governor stated he can not reply to the precise challenge as he was away for the previous few days. “I came back to Thiruvananthapuram only yesterday. So I’m not fully familiar with it,” he stated.

The governor stated data would equip individuals to tell apart between proper and flawed. He cited India’s custom and the case of Charvaka who rubbished every thing which individuals thought-about sacred. “Despite saying things which are offensive to the religious belief of the people, nobody hit him even with a small stone. Instead, Indians called him Mahatma Charvaka. One of six books of Indian philosophy is named after him,” Khan stated.

On Friday, CM Pinarayi Vijayan had taken robust exception to the inclusion of the texts. He stated the federal government didn’t wish to glorify those that had turned their faces away from the Freedom Struggle. “Any regressive ideas should have to be critically studied and analysed. Even doing so, those who had held aloft such ideas should not be glorified,” he stated.