New Delhi: Giving in to demands from various groups, the Delhi University has finally decided to delete essays written by eminent scholar A K Ramanujan on Ramayana from its History syllabus.
The decision to remove the essay titled 'Three Hundred Ramayanas' was taken at the Executive Council of the prestigious varsity which ratified the October, 2011 resolution of the Academic Council that sought the removal of the essay from the syllabus.
Of the 23 members in the EC, only one member opposed the decision to remove the essay.
Already, protests are brewing at the campus with the Democratic Teachers Front (DTF) planning its next course of action against the varsity's move.
The inclusion of the 30-page essay, which offers a number of tellings of the epic story of Lord Rama, including the Jain, Buddhist and Kannada narratives, in BA (Hons) syllabus had not gone down well with some sections of the right wing which termed it "blasphemous".
There have been protests by ABVP and other group activists demanding removal of the essay from the University syllabus.
The decision to remove the essay titled 'Three Hundred Ramayanas' was taken at the Executive Council of the prestigious varsity which ratified the October, 2011 resolution of the Academic Council that sought the removal of the essay from the syllabus.
Of the 23 members in the EC, only one member opposed the decision to remove the essay.
Already, protests are brewing at the campus with the Democratic Teachers Front (DTF) planning its next course of action against the varsity's move.
The inclusion of the 30-page essay, which offers a number of tellings of the epic story of Lord Rama, including the Jain, Buddhist and Kannada narratives, in BA (Hons) syllabus had not gone down well with some sections of the right wing which termed it "blasphemous".
There have been protests by ABVP and other group activists demanding removal of the essay from the University syllabus.
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