New Delhi: The controversy over cartoons in text books threatens to escalate. After a committee set up by the HRD Ministry recommended the removal of 43 cartoons, which included those of Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, from the NCERT textbooks of classes 9-12, the chief of the national council has said that there is no logic behind axing them.
The NCERT chief says that it is illogical to remove the cartoons in textbooks as recommended by the Thorat committee.
In fact, two of the "negative political" cartoons included those of Jawaharlal Nehru using his foot to propel a politician into the Governor's house and a beggar out to garland Indira Gandhi.
The Thorat Committee said that the cartoons in Political Science textbooks were "educationally inappropriate"....
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11:58 PM, May 19, 2012
New Delhi: It is a cartoon controversy that has almost no one laughing. After a furore by MP's over BR Ambedkar's caricature, the government has banned all cartoons in textbooks. The question is whether politicians take themselves too seriously. RJD chief Lalu Prasad's was the loudest voice in Parliament demanding a ban on cartoons in textbooks, following a 60-year-old cartoon on BR Ambedakr that united leaders across party ranks. But...
10:17 AM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: The members of Parliament across party lines said not just Ambedkar cartoons but no political cartoons at all should be allowed in school textbooks. The BJP said HRD Minister Kapil Sibal must resign on this issue. The question is whether cartoon and politician satire should be censored. CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discussed the issue with a distinguished panel on her show Face The Nation. Following is the...
12:17 PM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: Following the uproar over the controversial cartoon picture of BR Ambedkar in a textbook, NCERT advisors Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar resigned on Friday. Yadav and Palshikar were chief advisors for political science at the NCERT. However, BR Ambedkar's grandson has said that Ambedkar wouldn't have opposed the cartoon. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Prakash Ambedkar said, "The cartoon represented the year 1949 when Ambedkar himself was alive. I have...
08:02 AM, May 12, 2012
Kapil Sibal said that the issue had come to his notice in April and an order had been sent to the NCERT regarding the same. ...
11:52 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: Following the uproar over the controversial cartoon picture of BR Ambedkar in a textbook, NCERT advisors Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar resigned on Friday. Yadav and Palshikar were chief advisors for political science at the NCERT. Defending the move, Yadav said "it's a travesty to my mind to read a cartoon in such a manner". "The heated and not very well informed debate in the Parliament did not...
07:21 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday apologised for the controversial cartoon picture of BR Ambedkar in an NCERT textbook, after Dalit MPs protested over the matter in the Lok Sabha. As soon as the session began, Opposition members rushed to the Well of the House, holding posters of the 63-year-old cartoon. Kapil Sibal said, "The text book that contains this cartoon will not be distributed further. We have...
02:50 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: UPA's key ally Trinamool Congress on Friday termed as "a crime and a very shameful matter" the issue of publication of a cartoon of BR Ambedkar in an NCERT text book and demanded "strong action" against the officials responsible for it. "This is a very shameful matter. This is a crime. Whoever has published who drew it... it spoils image of not only the government, but the entire...
02:38 PM, May 11, 2012
