A friend of mine was appalled at the depiction of India in her son's sixth grade history text book in California. She dicided to do something to supplement the textbook material and got permission to present her material which was easy for her as she is a history major from Mumbai. She got rave reviews from the tachers and what is better she piqued the curiousity of the kids about India. And gets questions a full two weeks after the classes.
I am working with her to get her materials into ppt format for others to use. It will be about 50 slides divided into sections on society, religions, economy etc. Her best remark was the India gave rise to four religions- Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. The only other place that gave rise to only three is the entire Middle East! Just one country had the wisdom and tolerance of an entire region And even these are in harmony India without the need to legislate it.
BTW she is Muslim.
I am working with her to get her materials into ppt format for others to use. It will be about 50 slides divided into sections on society, religions, economy etc. Her best remark was the India gave rise to four religions- Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. The only other place that gave rise to only three is the entire Middle East! Just one country had the wisdom and tolerance of an entire region And even these are in harmony India without the need to legislate it.
BTW she is Muslim.