The sociology department of Delhi University (DU) is considering including sociologist Nandini Sundar’s book ‘The Burning Forest: India’s war in Bastar’ in its revised MA syllabus. Sundar’s book was allegedly dropped from the department’s reading list last year after some members of the Right-inclined teachers’ group, National Democratic Teachers’ Front (NDTF), opposed to its content. “The existing reading list has not been revised in the last one decade. So, the book was technically never a part of the reading list as it was published in 2016,” a faculty member familiar with the development said. The faculty members said that the process of revising the reading list was stalled last year following the opposition over Sundar’s book.

Source: Hindustan Times September 07, 2018 21:56 UTC