Drawing a dangerous line
If the capacity for laughter is a society’s health card, the cross-party call for a cartoon disarmament in textbooks last week speaks of many dangerous Indian diseases. By Shoma Chaudhury Read More >

"Inability to tolerate humour is not only infantile, it is a sign of Fascism"
Girish Karnad: Writer and Playwright Read More >

“The State gets away with symbolic gestures, withdrawing a cartoon here, building a statue there, but there is more than meets the eye”
Anand Patwardhan, Filmmaker Read More >

A Much Maligned Man
The attack on Professor Suhas Palshikar reeks of the intolerance that characterises our society.
Kumar Ketkar Editor, Dainik Divya Marathi Read More >

“If they have used them just for visual relief to the page, then the whole idea of using a cartoon is lost”
Keshav, Cartoonist for The Hindu Read More >

“This is a self-conceived notion of leaders who want to vie for the support of a social group”
KN Panikkar, Historian Read More >

“The government seems to be contemplating how media can be restricted, how freedoms can be curtailed”
Sebastian Paul, Former MP and Supreme Court lawyer Read More >

There is nothing Taliban about a developed sense of righteousness
In response to the recent comment that "cartoons are poisoning the brains of 16-year-olds", a team of underpaid forensic divers was assigned to get to the bottom of the matter. By KP Dogra Read More >

A Brush With Dissent
Visual Opinions drawn exclusively for Tehelka by some of the best Indian cartoonists See Gallery >

Cartoons are not the only thing this is about
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