Cartoon Row: Manufacturing Silence
It is a bad time to be a cartoon in India. First we had Mamata Banerjee arresting a professor accused of circulating a cartoon (actually a sinister plot to murder her as so clearly established by the menacing presence of the word 'vanish' used in the caricature). Then the entire Parliament went into a paroxysm of outrage over an ancient cartoon showing Ambedkar being whipped by Nehru, resulting in the withdrawal of one text book and a wholesale ban that proposed on the use of any cartoon showing politicians.