A man named Sandip Chowdhary was arrested in Agra for allegedly posting ‘communal and inflammatory’ cartoons on Prime Minister,Manmohan Singh,Union Communications Minister,Kapil Sibal and SP chief ,Mulayam Singh Yadav !
While our nation is busy tackling Islamic,Saffron and Red Terror,looks like,our politicians are tackling ‘Cartoon Terror’ . 🙂
In the recent times, some politicians and political parties have taken Cartoons very seriously. Instead of getting the message from them they are dragging the cartoonists to the court of law.
Politicians somehow seem to be reacting impatiently towards criticisms and while  most of the parties talk about democracy and secularism , they seem to be hating democratic rights of  other citizens.
The fact is , columnists ,journalists and even cartoonists working under the banner of big media houses can never be questioned but if it is a commoner (like in case of Mamata Banerjee cartoon row and Aseem Trivedi who supports Anna’s India Against Corruption Movement)the administration leaves no stones un-turned to teach the commoner a lesson for lifetime.
Suddenly,everyone has a problem with cartoons and cartoonists. But why ? There are hundreds of aggressive (and factual) articles on newspapers everyday condemning , criticizing and/or attacking the administration and tens of live chat-shows accusing and debating on current political issues. Why are they not questioned if cartoons and cartoonists are ?
