Elected to the Assembly in 1985 on a Janata Dal ticket, Chandru subsequently moved to BJP and became MLC twice. He is now the person tasked with keeping AAP afloat in the southern state.
Today, Shivamogga is a mere shadow of the vibrant cultural centre it once was and is a distressing example of the gradual erosion of a progressive space for arts and culture because of a politics whose bedrock is fear, communalisation, and the indifference of civil society.
The controversies over changing the content of textbooks began in 2020, when some topics were removed to shorten the syllabus at a time when schools were shut for long periods due to the pandemic.
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