madurai the akhil bharatiya vidhyarthi parishad whose complaint allegedly prompted manomaniam sundaranar university in tirunelveli to remove a book by arundhati roy from its ma english literature course has decided to seek a review of the syllabus in all universities in the state to ensure wrongful content is not taught to studentslast week the university received a written complaint from apvb joint secretary dakshin tamil nadu c vignesh saying walking with the comrades based on roys visit to maoistdominated regions in the country was objectionable and glorified the movement it had been included in the university syllabus in 2017 and is an electivevicechancellor k pitchumani said a committee which included the chairman of the board of studies of the department concerned and deans of various other departments was set up we also received many telephone calls on the issue and after careful consideration we decided to replace the book on wednesday with naturalist m krishnans my native land essays on nature he said pitchumani said roys book had been included before his tenure at the university began last yearabvp state organising secretary l muthuramalingam welcoming the books removal said the organisation was however unhappy it had been taught to thousands of students for the last three years it has made us constitute a committee to review syllabus of universities in tamil nadu to ensure such contents are not wrongfully taken to the student community he said muthuramalingam said the abvp had seven years ago got the same university to remove nonbu from its syllabus because of objectionable contents about sri andal natchiarmany political parties and academicians have condemned the removal of the book due to pressure from the abvp vck general secretary d ravikumar said people objecting to contents of books in a university syllabus was not new when a syllabus is objectionable to some it should be debated and a decision taken yielding to the pressure of an organisation like abvp is dangerous and it is time that the tamil nadu government took serious cognizance of the issue he said tamil nadu has surpassed the national target for higher education set for 2050 he said we are much advanced in higher education and such issues could play spoilsport to the states academic development parties like the cpm and dmk also strongly condemned the actionr murali convenor of the movement for the protection of higher education said books like roys were important for the education system as they informed students about the socio political situation of a nation it is a cowardly act by the vice chancellor to take an arbitrary decision to remove a book and replace it with another he said