Gour Hari Das' life to be a part of school textbooks?

Ananth Mahadevan, the director of the upcoming film 'Gour Hari Dastaan - The Freedom File', feels the story of the Odia freedom fighter - on whom his film is based - should be a part of school textbooks.

A scene from 'Gour Hari Dastaan'

The director has written to the education department of Maharashtra that a chapter on Das' life needs to be incorporated in history textbooks as he is one of the unsung heroes of the country's freedom struggle.