For a new anti-caste agenda

Those who criticise cartoons are all casteists, whether they realise this or not, whether they swear by Ambedkar or at him. Cartoons use humour, graphic art, innovative language, symbols and allusion, to comment, critique and hold the powerful to account. Cartoons are irreverent; they question authority and help overturn the status quo. Cartoons complement, often more powerfully and more evocatively, written editorial critique in the mediation of information and ideas among different sections and layers of the nation's polity.

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