On 1 May, the cartoonist Suhail H. Naqshbandi illustrated with this cartoon a text in which he explained his reasons for quitting his job as an editorial cartoonist for the newspaper Greater Kashmir. The censorship of the medium and pressure from the government ended up making his work impossible. It is not very
One of those denounced is Swathi Vadlamudi, for drawing and publishing this cartoon on Facebook. Spain is not the only country where anything is denounced for offence to religious sentiments; legal tantrums by those who consider that their beliefs are being insulted are almost universal and one of the causes of conflict that
Cartoon for which G.Bala has been detained Indian cartoonist and journalist G. Bala(Twitter) (Bombay, 1980) was arrested on Sunday 5 November in Tamil Nadu for a cartoon that the authorities consider obscene and defamatory. G.Bala's picture shows Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami along with two other members of the Tirunelveli district police and
Heng im cartoon in NYT (06/12/2015) In December 2015, coinciding with the UN Climate Summit in Paris, The New York Times published this cartoon by Heng Kim Song (Singapore, 1964) depicting India as an elephant sitting on the tracks impeding the progress of the climate change talks train. Indian cartoonists, and those from
Kanika Mishra Web / Facebook Karnika Kahen is a female character, nicknamed "Everywoman", with a certain resemblance to her author, Kanika Mishra, even in the name. The problems for this artist born in Lucknow, a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh, began in 2013, when she decided to draw cartoons critical of
