On 5 August, India blocked The Wire, again, blocked the internet and telephony, ordered tourists to leave Kashmir and made a massive deployment of soldiers. Yet another move to abolish its independence that the government cynically sold as a measure against terrorism and to"ensure peace and tranquillity". India has thus divided the state ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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