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 We at Jaal warmly welcome the Government initiative in introducing Astrology as a field of serious study. Now you can see stars even before getting your marksheet. But we believe that the curriculum should witness several other changes to correctly reflect not only the times we live in but also our glorious tradition.Here are a few additional fields of study we suggest for the perusal of the Hon. Murli Manohar Joshiji: I. Palmistry: A necessary course, to be taught at the +2 level with undergraduate and post-graduate degrees on offer. Students will learn to read between the lines. Extra credits should be granted to those pursuing doctorates in greased palm reading. 2. Shunya: Our greatest contribution to science has been the discovery of the Zero. Our politicians have manfully tried their utmost in maintaining the sanctity of this divine number by pegging their performance and achievements vis-à-vis developmental matters to it. Our cricketers pay it regular homage. It is now time that the Mathematics curriculum is suitably altered to allow scholars to honour this great tradition. 3. Stree Shastra: Screw those uppity feminazis by introducing a course in gender studies that is coherent with our hoary culture. The syllabus could include important elements such as washing the husband's feet, cooking, cleaning, and sweeping, and the correct posture to adopt while sitting on a sati pyre.  4. Prakrit and other languages: By all accounts, Sanskrit is a fairly modern language, we should go further back. Scholars should rejuvenate dead languages and reintroduce them as compulsory subsidiaries for college students. They could well take the place of English, which is, after all, a foreign import, and emblem of colonialism and should be shunned on our swadeshi shores.5. Vaastu: Another science that has been ignored by everyone except newspaper columnists and shady builders. Should be reintroduced while first demolishing all university buildings and structures that do not conform to its strictures. 6. The Theory of Evolution: That Darwinian nonsense cannot stand the scrutiny of our enlightened Human Resource Development Minister and should be scrapped forthwith. It is time to return to the Brahmanical theory with a solid foundation on the principles as expounded in Manusmriti. 7. String theory: A new course could be introduced wherein students of physics, in particular, can understand and utilise the correct manner in which to recite their daily prayers while fingering their beads. 8. Moral Science: Compulsory at all levels of study. Students will learn their lessons clad in khaki knickers attending shakhas at the break of dawn. 9. Marxist History: The version of history according to our "secular" scholars should be made a separate field of study. 10. Sangh History: The version of history according to our Vedic scholars should be made a separate field of study. Note: Students of history who wish to waste their time trying to figure out what actually happened should take both courses and find the golden mean. The rest could simply adhere to the Fordism: "History is bunk". RECENTLY ON JAAL: Pol Poll: Are You A Neta Wannabe? The Raj Strikes Back The EMail Of The Species Kandahar Ka Kaana Raja The World Is Not Enough Back To Squire One Poll Gita Where There's A Bill, There's A Wait DotComs, By The Numbers GoI-ing After Veerappan The Bore-Gush Race Hack Attack! Eee! Governance! Justice Unbound Small States, Large Stakes Con Banega Crorepati Salesman No. 1 Cat And Meows 25 Years After Paswan Goes DOTty Child's Play Toilet Paper Drought And About Boer Boar The Joke's On You The Coming Of Bill T Kannan SEND US YOUR FEEDBACK ABOUT THIS ARTICLE: ?
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