Audio Recordings: The Assault on Reason - Rewriting of History - A SAHMAT Press conference in Delhi (5 Sept 2015)

Systematic attacks on rational and independent thinking, as manifest in the recent killing of Dr Kalburgi, combined with the dubious efforts to re-write Indian history as can be seen in the re-naming of public roads and streets, need to be seen as part of the majoritarian and communal agenda of the NDA II government. They are part of a trend that began in 1999 with the Value Education syllabus sought to be introduced by the then NDA I government. Anil Nauriya, Irfan Habib, Teesta Setalvad and Prof Prabhat Patnaik addressed the Press Conference organised by SAHMAT condemning this dangerous trend, a reflection of a serious erosion of overall democratic space.