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What’s wrong with saffron education, asks VP Naidu

Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu called for Indians to “give up their colonial mindset” and instead “take pride in their own identity.” “Education in English-medium schools has given rise to a small class of aristocrats. We are accused of saffronising education, but then what is wrong with saffron? We have believed in the welfare of all and considered the whole world as one family” he said.

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