New Delhi: In 1923, iconic Bengali humorist Sukumar Ray described a curious race of beings "who were scared to laugh". With the government forced to apologise for a 1949 cartoon on Jawaharlal Nehru and B.R. Ambedkar after parliamentarians of all hues raised a massive ruckus, are Indians becoming that humourless race? The 63-year-old cartoon by the eminent Shankar - considered the father of Indian political cartoonists who ran the highly...
01:12 PM, May 18, 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
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
It was 2006, the mid of UPA-I tenure, and we moved to Class 9, all enthusiastic about the new subjects. One of the subjects, Social Science, has always been a tough bite for students and Political Science, which comes under it, has always been something interesting. Earlier, we had been reading about the bills and acts of the Indian government, but it was real fun for us now, as we...
08:48 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: After fighting for removal of BR Ambedkar's cartoon from NCERT books, some MPs are demanding the removal of all political satires from school textbooks. In fact that's what a Parliamentary forum headed by Meira Kumar has told the NCERT. CNN-IBN has now learnt that the Members of Parliamentary forum having members from all major parties in a meeting last week raised expressed strong displeasure on cartoons in NCERT...
10:14 PM, May 13, 2012
Indore: BJP on Sunday accused the Congress-led UPA government of "deliberately insulting Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, the 'messiah of Dalits'" through a cartoon in NCERT textbook. Senior BJP leader Narayan Kesri, who took part in the dharna held in front of Dr Ambedkar statue at Geeta chowk in Indore, said that through the cartoon, Congress had not only insulted the man, who wrote the Indian Constitution, but has insulted the whole...
09:49 PM, May 13, 2012
A Parliamentary forum headed by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has told the NCERT that there should be no political satire in school textbooks. ...
03:42 PM, May 13, 2012
Goons went on a rampage at the office of former NCERT Professor Suhas Palshikar in Pune, a day after he resigned over the controversial cartoon of Dr BR Ambedkar. ...
08:53 AM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: Former NCERT adviser Professor Suhas Palshikar's Pune University office was allegedly attacked and ransacked by an unidentified group over the row on the 63-year-old cartoon of BR Ambdekar. Earlier on Friday, Palshikar had quit as the NCERT advisor after the NCERT was forced to withdraw the sketch from school textbooks. This came after MPs across party lines objected and caused a ruckus in Parliament. Sources said the cartoon...
08:38 AM, May 13, 2012
Goons in Pune went on a rampage at the office of Professor Suhas Palshikar against the so called derogatory cartoon of BR Ambedkar. ...
11:49 PM, May 12, 2012
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