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Controversial cartoons: From arrests to murder attempts
Friday May 11, 2012 04:58:19 PM,
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New Delhi: A cartoon
on Dalit icon Dr. B.R. Ambedkar printed in a textbook created a
storm Friday forcing the Human Resource Development Minister Kapil
Sibal to apologise.
The old cartoon, by renowned cartoonist Shankar, depicts Nehru,
with a whip in his hand, chasing Ambedkar, who is seated on a
snail. In the cartoon, Nehru is asking Ambedkar to speed up the
work on the constitution.
Here are some of the other controversial caricatures and cartoons
that created a furore in India and around the world, leading to
arrests and even murder attempts:
-- A Jadavpore University professor, Ambikesh Mahapatra and his
neighbour were arrested last month in Kolkata for circulating
defamatory cartoons of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
and some other Trinamool Congress leaders.
The collage of cartoons allegedly includes the photographs of
Banerjee and Railway Minister Mukul Roy and uses some dialogues of
Satyajit Ray's detective masterpiece "Sonar Kella", showing the
duo discussing how to get rid of party leader Dinesh Trivedi, who
was earlier forced by the chief minister to give up the railways
portfolio in the central government. 'Mukul' is incidentally the
name of the child protagonist in the movie.
-- Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard made international headlines
after the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005 published a
series of cartoons, including one showing Prophet Mohammed with a
bomb in his turban. The cartoons outraged many Muslims. The
newspaper and cartoonist have since been the targets of many
thwarted attacks.
-- Swedish cartoon artist Lars Vilks became the target of an
alleged international murder plot for his 2007 cartoons of Prophet
Mohammed as a dog. In 2010, he again angered Muslims by showing an
Iranian film that depicted the Prophet entering a gay bar at a
university in Sweden.
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