Overvaluing the symbolic

A cartoon that got its maker locked up on charges of sedition. A crudely provocative film that has set off riots in several parts of the world; this coming on the back of a doctored video alleging atrocities in Assam that triggered another violent riot. Go back a few months and rewind to another cartoon that made a mercurial Chief Minister jail a college professor. And another one about a revered Dalit figure, excavated after sixty years, that created a storm of protest.

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