A textbook in Rajasthan has apparently made a comparision between women and donkeys and the latter came on top.
From yahoo.com:
"A donkey is like a housewife ... In fact, the donkey is a shade better, for while the housewife may sometimes complain and walk off to her parents' home, you'll never catch the donkey being disloyal to his master," the newspaper reported, quoting a Hindi-language primer meant for 14-year-olds.
From answers.com:
prim·er (prĭm'ər) pronunciation
n.
1. An elementary textbook for teaching children to read.
2. A book that covers the basic elements of a subject.
Shameful that the government would even allow something like that to be published. Anything degrading women should not be published anywhere in the first place, certainly not in a textbook. When the western media is looking for more reasons to potray India as the "mystic orient", we provide more reasons for them to do so.
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