New Delhi: The executive council of the Jawaharlal Nehru University on Thursday approved a new counter-terrorism course, which had drawn criticism from a section of teachers and students over its content. The council also approved the observance of August 14 as ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’ every year, NDTV reported quoting sources.
Every year, the university will organise various events including webinars/seminars, exhibitions, distinguished lectures, recalling of a true account of the events through survivors, and other related activities to educate the younger generation about how millions of Indians lost their lives to the horrors of the partition, a statement from the university said.
“Further, the partition of India as a moment of national trauma with broad historical phases related to ideologies and ideologues of the partition, the events of partition leading to violence, breaking up of a civilisation and aftereffects of partition where silencing of truths and construction of an obfuscated discourse will be revisited,” the statement read.
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