Dhaka, Jan. 14 -- The walls and streets in the Dhaka University campus area have been painted with murals to protest the removal of the term "adivasi" - a collective term for a number of ethnic minority groups in the country - from imagery used in ninth and tenth grade school textbooks.
Colourful murals were painted from Monday midnight into the wee hours of Tuesday on walls and streets near the Central Shaheed Minar, Dhaka's University's Jagannath Hall, and Rokeya Hall, voicing opposition to the omission of the term from the textbooks.
Rupaiya Shreshtha Tanchangya, a member of the executive committee of the Anti-discrimination Student Movement, said: "Students for Sovereignty - an extremist communal group - is spreading false propagan...