12-year-old girl urges PM Modi to include Northeast India in history textbooks

Unfortunately there’s very little that the average Indian knows about Northeast India when compared to other regions of the country. But one 12-year-old girl hopes to change that. Aaira Goswami did not let her age stop her from coming forward and making a passionate appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to include the history of this neglected region in Indian school textbooks.

In a video, Aaira talks about how she has learnt a lot about royal ancient dynasties like the Mauryas, the Guptas, and the Mughals at her school but nothing about the past of her native state – Assam. “Where is the long-lost glory of the seven sisters? Some students don't even know what the seven sisters are. If I could just read about my state Assam and northeast in my books, it would be like a dream come true,” she says.

Let’s hope that the Prime Minister takes note of this and does something about it fast.