New NCERT Books Ditch the Poverty Lens, but Are We Ditching Empathy Too?
Roshni Chakrabarty | 12 June 2025 | India Today
No more “povertarian narratives” -- that’s how Sanjeev Sanyal, the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council member, and now a core figure in NCERT textbook reform committee framed in 2023, introduced the new Class 7 Social Science books to the public earlier this week.
Posting on X (formerly Twitter), the author said, “We have broken away from old poverty and gratefully colonised narrative.” The new textbooks, he claimed, are visually richer, less dated, and more focused on “modern” examples in economics, and “storytelling rather than dates” when it came to history…