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RAJASTHAN, India, Apr 5, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Activists have won removal of a chapter in a 9th grade Indian textbook that compared women and politicians to donkeys, a report said.
The chapter was part of a Hindi textbook prepared for the school board of Rajasthan, India, and written the late eminent Hindi satirist Gopalprasad Vyas, the Times of India reported.
"A donkey is like a housewife," the offending chapter said. "It has to toil all day and, like her, may even have to give up food and water. In fact, the donkey is a shade better, for while the housewife may sometimes complain and walk off to her parents' home, you'll never catch the donkey being disloyal to his master."
Education officials said the chapter was intentionally humorous.
"The same chapter also compares the donkey to politicians, calling the animal thick-skinned," one official told the newspaper.
However, given numerous complaints, officials said the offending chapter is being removed.
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