-The Economic Times School textBooks will not feature any 'offensive' political cartoon, the government assured on Monday, days after a 1949 cartoon of Dalit icon Ambedkar in a political science text rocked Parliament. The government has ordered an inquiry to identify NCERT officials responsible for inclusion of the Ambedkar cartoon in the textBook, HRD minister Kapil Sibal said in the Lok Sabha. "I found that a number of cartoons were inappropriate...a review...
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Ambedkar cartoon row: An act of cowardly populism, says Shiv Visvanathan
-The Economic Times Babasaheb Ambedkar is one of the most fascinating figures in Indian politics. In hagiographic terms, if Gandhi is the father of the nation, Ambedkar is father of the Indian Constitution. Both have a legendary status which inspires hagiolatry. Any critique of them is seen as iconoclastic. Gandhians tend to put Gandhi in moth balls in their Ashrams. Dalits similarly tend to freeze Ambedkar, disallowing the slightest controversy. Strangely Hindu...
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-The Indian Express Where are the tall leaders who could put an end to this experiment in censorship? The UPA government may have only been true to character when it keeled over at the first hint of political uproar against cartoons in NCERT textBooks. Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal hurried to withdraw the Book with the newly controversial Ambedkar cartoon, without a minimal attempt at debate, and Pranab Mukherjee said that Books...
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An illustration in a textBook must expand or add to the lesson; Shankar's cartoon of Ambedkar does neither The controversy kicked up over the withdrawal of a textBook for high school over a cartoon after a ruckus in Parliament has been superficially interpreted and uniformly criticised without understanding the sensitivities of the oppressed for whom B.R. Ambedkar is a hero. The anger of Dalits is being interpreted as intolerance while in...
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-DNA The issue of controversial cartoons in textBooks generated heat in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday with members demanding immediate action in the matter saying the sketch has hurt sentiments of a section of the society. Raising the issue during Question Hour, Harsimrat Kaur (SAD) and Shailendra Kumar (SP) demanded that the CBSE textBooks carrying the cartoons should be removed immediately. They were joined by Congress members, including Sanjay Nirupam and Lal...
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