Ma'am, the Textbook has Changed [India]
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Ma'am, the Textbook has Changed [India]
You'd hardly expect to find scenes from a noisy Chennai fish market popping out of a mathematics textbook. But that's exactly what you'll see when you flip through the pages of a class V NCERT text. Floramma, Gracy, Mini and Karuthamma squat on the ground, calling out the day's prices to customers. Their baskets are laden with fresh catch.
You might take them for fictitious characters, but the fact is that the pictures in the book are those of real people. There's even one of a fisherwoman called Fazila lugging a rather large kingfish.So what does this have to do ...See the full content of this document