Speaking exclusively to NDTV, NCERT Director Dinesh Prasad Saklani said that the 'rationalisation' of textbooks is in no way done to align with any political ideology. He added that only those chapters have been dropped that overlap with textbooks of earlier grades. Listen in to this conversation where he talks at length about the latest controversy that erupted after chapters on Mughal history among others were dropped from NCERT textbooks.