Excerpts from a Class IV environmental science textbook that suggest students to “kill a kitten” as part of an experiment have gone viral on social media, forcing the publisher to withdraw it from the market. The kitten inside the box without the holes has died,” the textbook reads. “We have withdrawn the book from the distributors and will not sell the existing stock as well. Parents of such girls become helpless and pay dowry as per the demands of the bridegroom as family. Read| Families pay dowry when girls are ugly: Maharashtra textbook stretches reason

Source: Hindustan Times February 12, 2017 06:00 UTC