More On Cartoon-Related Controversies In India
The latest round of political uproar over cartooning in India -- a country with a rich tradition of editorial and newspaper cartooning and a bright future as a market for longer-form works -- has triggered the usual number of think pieces. The New York Times has a mini-survey of some of the major editorial cartooning players. Mangesh Tendulkar thinks the entire cartooning tradition is in deep trouble. A piece at Reuters emphasizes just how strange it is for a 60-year-old cartoon to be excised from a textbook, not to mention that every inclusion of a cartoon is likely to be reviewed -- as I recall, I saw a lot of cartoons for the first time in textbooks, including Mauldin's distraught Lincoln Memorial cartoon after Kennedy was shot. A piece at The Economic Times excoriates the fragile political culture where these kinds of things are even a concern.
