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Should a Classroom Comfort Its Students or Leave Them Nowhere to Hide?

Mini Krishnan, coordinating editor at the Tamil Nadu Textbook and Educational Services Corporation, published an essay in The Hindu on 2 November 2026 calling for translated Indian texts and Dalit writing in curricula. She argues that language, religion, class and caste divide India, with gender cutting across all of them and that reading across these lines can build empathy.