Cartoon row: Toons not anti-politics, aimed at good teaching
The "cartoon controversy" began with a specific remark, a feeling of hurt about a cartoon depicting Ambedkar. It seems, and became clear very soon in the Lok Sabha debate, that the unease was much wider - extending to the very existence of cartoons. To be fair to parliamentarians, their unease is with a certain pedagogy. They are used to a certain kind of textbook and they feel these new textbooks are irresponsible, casual, mocking, silly and therefore inappropriate.