SUMMARY
After withdrawing the book last week, Partha Chatterjee had ordered the chairman to revise the book.
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Less than a week after it ordered to withdraw a Bengali textbook for Class 12, which contained a long paragraph on contribution of former Trinamool Congress MP and singer Kabir Suman to contemporary Bengali music, the state government Thursday said the book will be relaunched after revision and addition of some more names.
Among others, the revised boom will now detail the contributions of artistes such as legendary singers such as Hemanta Mukherjee, Manna Dey, Shyamal Mitra, Sandhya Mukherjee and Gautam Chatterjee in the book ‘Bangalir Bhasha o Sanskriti’ (The language and culture of Bengali people).
Education Minister, who had ordered the book to be withdrawn, Thursday told the Assembly that it was “unfortunate that the book did not refer to such stalwarts like Hemnata or Manna Dey or Sandhya Mukherhee.”
“But, of course, we are not in favour of dropping anyone from the list. If ‘Pachakanta’ (a derogatory term for Kabir Suman) can be there, other artistes can also be there,” Partha Chatterjee told the House after a meeting with Aveek Majumdar, chairman of the syllabus committee (for classes upto 12).
After withdrawing the book last week, Partha Chatterjee had ordered the chairman to revise the book. “The draft of the revised version will be shown to me on Monday,” the minister said, adding that the government would recruit poet Ganesh Basu and nuclear scientist Bikash Sinha as advisers to the syllabus committee.
Though the government mentioned factual errors in the book as the reason for its withdrawal, sources said, the riling party was not very happy at reference to rebel TMC leader Kabir Suman.
Suman, a Kolkata-based modern Bengali singer-songwriter and musician contested the Lok Sabha election on a Trinamool Congress ticket from Jadavpur constituency in 2009. He was subsequently suspended from the party after he fell out with the party leadership.
source: http://www.indianexpress.com / The Indian Express / Home> Cities> Kolkata / by Express News Service / Kolkata – July 04th, 2014