Textbook Controversy: The Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) has objected to a chapter in the NCERT's Class IX English textbook. The commission has asked NCERT to remove or amend the chapter from the book. DCPCR chief Anurag Kundu has claimed that the chapter in the NCERT book normalizes domestic violence by men. At the same time, it teaches children to accept domestic violence by portraying women as conservative. Kundu said that the chapter titled 'The Little Girl tells the story of Kezia, a girl who is afraid of her father and is constantly threatened that it will stifle her expression and freedom.
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Anurag Kundu wrote in the tweet, I have advised the director of @ncert to remove chapter three titled "The Little Girl" from the Class IX English textbook as it normalizes violent masculinity, perpetuates patriarchy, and Promotes bad behavior in the family. However, there was no immediate response from the NCERT on the matter. The director of DCPCR said that it teaches children to accept violence at home. This content does not empower girls in any way, and in fact, sets the wrong example. Kundu said textbooks play an important role in shaping young minds as they grow up challenging the notions of misogyny and violence.
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According to the story, Kezia's grandmother asks her to prepare a gift for her father as his birthday is coming up. She prepares a cushion but fills it with papers that contain a speech her father was to deliver at an event. The father beats him up on knowing this, but the grandmother asks him to forget the incident. At night, sleeping beside her father, Kezia realizes that the father works too hard for her, and that is the reason why he gets angry again and again. Kezia forgets about the incident and forgives her father.
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The DCPCR panel said it consulted gender experts on the chapter and concluded it was grossly inaccurate. It states that Kezia's grandmother and mother have been shown stereotypically. Both women are submissive, unable to resist when the father hits Kezia or shouts at her. The mother is shown as an enabler of abuse and patriarchy in the home..., the grandmother lovingly pacifies him, but never defends him from the father... His grandmother, being an elder, takes care of her son and is shown as powerless in front of
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