The bizarre and clearly communally inspired section in this year's HSC Bangla question paper is a dangerous occurrence that could easily have been overlooked had it not been doing the rounds on social media.
In any functional society, education is supposed to play a crucial part in dispelling ignorance, not in adding to it. Which makes it all the more shocking that an exam question has been found to be hurtful to the religious sentiments of the Hindu community – that too in the HSC examinations.