Cyrus Broacha also talks about Ambedkar cartoon row, Rekha in Rajya Sabha and much more. ...
11:58 PM, May 19, 2012
Three judges from the Saket court were attacked by two men on a motorbike following an accident on Thursday evening. ...
02:24 PM, May 18, 2012
The grand old man of Indian cartooning, RK Laxman, has a delightful anecdote that embodies the charm of political cartooning. Soon after the 1962 Sino-Indian ...
12:22 AM, May 18, 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 government has set up a panel headed by former UGC chairman SK Thorat in the wake of the cartoon row to review NCERT's political science textbooks for schools. The committee, which has five members from the social science background, will review class IX to XII social science/political science textbooks of NCERT from the point of view of identifying educationally inappropriate material in them, said a NCERT notification....
09:39 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan is a part of India and PV Narasimha Rao is the Prime Minister of the country - this is being taught to school students in some states, according to a Member of Parliament. AIADMK member S Semmalai highlighted this in Lok Sabha on Wednesday while referring to the controversy over Ambedkar cartoon in CBSE textbooks during a discussion on Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Amendment Bill,...
08:42 PM, May 16, 2012
What has happened to the nation? The Parliament is scared of cartoons while the government resents freedom of press. News broke on Friday that the ...
04:37 PM, May 15, 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: Under attack over the cartoon row, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday acknowledged that cartoons on the political class should not find a place in textbooks as they influence the impressionable minds of students. Holding that the issue is not about the content of the cartoons but about their inclusion in textbooks, he said the impression should not go to the world that the political class is corrupt...
02:04 AM, May 15, 2012
Sources say the MPs want cartoons of all politicians removed from school textbooks as they depict politicians in a poor light. ...
11:58 PM, May 14, 2012
An under pressure government has decided that no political cartoons will be allowed in school textbooks. ...
11:50 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Cartoons making fun of political leaders is certainly no laughing matter. The toons finding their way into textbooks came under all-round attack in Lok Sabha on Monday, prompting the government to promise an inquiry into the role of NCERT officials and ensure there are no recurrences. A controversy that began with a cartoon of B R Ambedkar is now threatening to take the scalp of Human Resource Development...
10:02 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday said that freedom of expression is "contextual". His statement came even as members in the Lok Sabha once again united in criticising cartoons in NCERT textbooks, stating that these allegedly denigrated political leaders, especially the ones on BR Ambedkar. Sibal promised the Lok Sabha that all objectionable material would be removed and the role of advisors of NCERT (National...
07:30 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Following the controversy over a 63-year-old BR Ambedkar cartoon by K Shankar Pillai the government assured Parliament that no political cartoons would be allowed in school textbooks. Finance Minister Pranab Mukerjee also announced that all the objectionable material would be withdrawn. But the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) book at the centre of the storm - India Constitution at Work, a part of the Class...
06:58 PM, May 14, 2012
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