Edappadi K. Palaniswami wrote to Prime Minister Modi asking him to personally intervene and direct the Union Ministry of Culture to reconstitute the expert committee by inducting eminent scholars from Tamil Nadu
Objecting to an expert committee constituted by the Union Ministry of Culture which does not have any expert from Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to direct the Ministry to reconstitute the panel by including experts from the State.
The Union Ministry of Culture recently constituted an expert committee to conduct a holistic study of the origin and evolution of Indian culture during the past 12 millennia, and its interface with other cultures of the world.
While it was a welcome move to deepen our understanding of our country’s rich and varied cultural roots, the composition of the committee in…