'Savarkar flew out of prison on bulbuls,' says K'taka school book; panel clarifies

A Class 8 Kannada textbook has a passage that claims that when Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar was in a prison, bulbul birds would enter his cell and he would sit on them and visit his motherland daily. Amid facing criticism, Karnataka Textbook Revision Committee said the line is a figure of speech. It added that it's not a literal claim.