DU Colleges Ask Teachers to Attend Centre’s Event on Partition
Ashna Bhutani | 13 August 2024 | The Hindu
Days after the Ministry of Culture invited Delhi University to participate in the “Partition Horrors Remembrance Day” programme on August 14, the university has asked colleges to send 20 teachers each to the event. A few departments have made teachers’ participation mandatory, prompting some academics to question the move.
The invite by the Ministry, dated August 9, stated that the event, scheduled at Bharat Mandapam, aims to “recollect the horrors of Partition and to create a unanimous feeling among our countrymen that such horrific events may not be repeated”. Home Minister Amit Shah will chair the event.
The note requested the participation of the university’s teachers and students, “especially those studying in postgraduate research courses and those in the second and third years of undergraduate courses,” to ensure “that the message of this event is disseminated among the youth”…