India Supreme Court Proclaims Comics An Unsafe Profession

It was only in passing, but I agree with the person that turned the remarks made at the Indian Supreme Court into a short feature article: it's kind of astonishing to hear legal arbiters at that level kind of admit that there are dangers in India -- and by extension several other market -- for those that would make cartoons and caricatures. Of course, I think I'd rather have the justices dismantling any legal apparatus that allows cartoonists to be harassed against all reason rather than simply commenting on it, but I don't always get what I want.

It looks like one such move begun a couple of years ago in the Aseem Trivedi case might be one the kind of safeguard that rational thought would welcome -- the idea that sedition can't be applied to a criticism of individual, say, or without their being imminent danger involved. Let's hope there's more of a step in that direction in that vital, complex market for comics and cartooning.
 
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