Cartoon Row

• France braces for Mohammed cartoons backlash

  France was braced for a backlash on Wednesday as a satirical weekly magazine that published cartoons featuring crude depictions of the Prophet Mohammed flew off the shelves. Embassies, consulates, cultural centres and international French schools in around 20 Muslim countries will be closed on Friday for fear of violence following weekly prayers.

• Mamata cartoon row: Punish those who arrested me, says Prof Ambikesh Mahapatra

  The West Bengal Human Rights Commission, headed by former Supreme Court judge, Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly, has recommended that the state government should pay Rs 50,000 each to former Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra and his neighbour Subroto Roy for their arrest in the middle of the night for circulating a cartoon of Chief Ministe...

• Cartoon Controversy: Thorat Committee recommendations junked?

  The debate over the cartoons in National Council Of Educational Research And Training (NCERT) textbooks is far from over. The academic year is already underway but schools will have to wait at least till the end of this month to get their political science textbooks in hand.

• Delete cartoons against politicians and babus from NCERT textbooks: Review panel

  A panel constituted by the government to review NCERT textbooks for Political and Social Science has recommended that cartoons that show politicians and bureaucrats in an "'incorrect way" be deleted.

• After Vaiko, Karunanidhi protests against cartoon in textbooks

  Just as the Ambedkar cartoon row was fading, a toon on the anti-Hindi agitation in Tamil Nadu in the 60s in a NCERT class XII textbook has kicked up another controversy in the state with key UPA ally DMK demanding its removal and other parties joining the chorus

• Denmark jails Prophet cartoon plot gang for 12 years

  Four men were jailed for 12 years each on Monday for plotting a gun attack on a Danish newspaper over its cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, whose publication in 2005 sparked deadly riots across the Muslim world.

• Cartoon row: Mamata loses cool, storms out of live TV session

  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday lost her cool and stormed out of an interactive TV session in Kolkata when members of audience asked her about the arrest of a professor for forwarding a cartoon lampooning her.

• Cartoon row: Don't understand what the fuss is about, Jaswant Singh tells NDTV

  In the wake of the controversy over the cartoon depicting BR Ambedkar and Jawaharlal Nehru in an NCERT textbook, Members of Parliament united on Monday to express their concern over cartoons in textbooks, asking them to be removed immediately. We speak to the lone voice of dissent - BJP leader Jaswant Singh - amongst this united front.

• Cartoon row - Politics overtakes the classroom?

  The BR Ambedkar cartoon, drawn by the famous Shankar Pillai in 1949, caused such chaos in Parliament last week that now a new committee is reviewing all NCERT books. MPs from different parties agreed that the cartoon - thoroughly misunderstood, argue many - was offensive, and should never have made it into school books.

• Now, nearly 200 other cartoons in textbooks being reviewed

  It turns out that the cartoon of Dr BR Ambedkar and Jawaharlal Nehru is just the starting point. Nearly 200 other cartoons currently used in school textbooks are to be reviewed and most likely deleted.

• Ambedkar cartoon row: A day after resignation, office of NCERT advisor Suhas Palshikar attacked in Pune

  The office of Suhas Palshikar, one of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) officials, who resigned from his post yesterday over the cartoon row, has reportedly been attacked in Pune. According to reports, two to three people went to meet the former NCERT advisor today and then attacked his office. Mr Palshikar is not hu...

• Ambedkar cartoon in NCERT textbook: BJP slams Congress

  BJP today slammed the government on the issue of cartoon of Dalit icon B R Ambedkar in school text books and accused Congress of "insulting" Gujjar, Jat, Sikh and Jain communities in text books.

• Row over Ambedkar-Nehru cartoon in NCERT textbook: Top 10 developments

  After a cartoon depicting Dr BR Ambedkar being used in a Class XI textbook caused an uproar in Parliament leading to adjournment of both Houses, and an apology from the government, two senior National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) officials had to resign today over the issue.

• The man behind the 50-year-old Ambedkar-Nehru cartoon that rocked Parliament

  The school textbook cartoon of Dr BR Ambedkar which created a furore in parliament today was sketched by cartoonist Keshav Shankar Pillai in the 1950s while the Constitution was being framed, said a human resource development ministry official.

• Another anti-Mamata cartoon, professor files complaint

  An associate professor of Midnapore Medical College filed a fresh complaint on Saturday night against two persons accusing them of circulating a cartoon that denigrates the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. This comes days after Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra was jailed on the charge of sending cartoon criticising Trinam...