Just the other day Anando brought a cartoon to show me – a beautiful cartoon, but the Government of tamil nadu in madras asked the cartoonist to apologize publicity, obviously he refused, because he has not mentioned anybody’s name. the cartoon was of two figures, with a small note underneath that the man who look like a pickpocket is a minister an the man who look like dacoit, a thief, is the chief minister. Now, there is no need for anybody to be angry –and particularly in a democracy where you go on bragging about freedom of speech. He was not named anybody, and in India there are so many chief ministers, and so many ministers.
In fact, if anybody was to be offended it was the pickpockets and the dacoits, but they seem to have some sense of humor . No pickpocket , no dacoit went to the court saying “ “it is insulting to us. “
But the chief minister of Tamil Nadu and the whole assembly unanimously voted to send the man to jail for one year because he has refused to make an apology. The man has already served three days in jail. But then there was great uproar all over the country, this is absolutely absurd. He has not mentioned anybody’s name , and if even a cartoon becomes so damaging to your respectability, then certainly the cartoon is saying something true about you. Whoever is offended has exposed himself, that the carton is about him; otherwise there was no need, there was no name on it.
Because the pressure from all over the country became greater and greater, they had to release the man. But such is the smallness of man. Even the people you think great leaders of men behave so stupidly
Book :Zaruthusra : the Laughing Prophet ,Chapter # 10 Before sunrise
( Note :it was about a cartoon in ananda vikatan , then the chief minister was MGR )
In fact, if anybody was to be offended it was the pickpockets and the dacoits, but they seem to have some sense of humor . No pickpocket , no dacoit went to the court saying “ “it is insulting to us. “
But the chief minister of Tamil Nadu and the whole assembly unanimously voted to send the man to jail for one year because he has refused to make an apology. The man has already served three days in jail. But then there was great uproar all over the country, this is absolutely absurd. He has not mentioned anybody’s name , and if even a cartoon becomes so damaging to your respectability, then certainly the cartoon is saying something true about you. Whoever is offended has exposed himself, that the carton is about him; otherwise there was no need, there was no name on it.
Because the pressure from all over the country became greater and greater, they had to release the man. But such is the smallness of man. Even the people you think great leaders of men behave so stupidly
Book :Zaruthusra : the Laughing Prophet ,Chapter # 10 Before sunrise
( Note :it was about a cartoon in ananda vikatan , then the chief minister was MGR )
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