Letter to BS: Tilak described as 'father of terrorism' in class 8 book

Student Advisor Publication Private Limited, which publishes the book, said the mistake had been rectified in the revised edition

This is with reference to the Chinese Whispers item “Tilak, the father of terrorism” (May 14), the aam aadmi's loveable Bal Gangadhar Tilak was an Indian nationalist, teacher, social reformer, journalist, lawyer and an independence activist, who inspired the nation by his call, "swarajis my birthright and I shall have it". Naturally people wonder how Tilak, who was also conferred with the title of "Lokmanya", has, all of a sudden, become the ‘father of terror’?

One of the reasons may be that the British colonial authorities called him "the father of the Indian unrest", and due to the translator’s mistake, it