Caricaturing the republic: Too many holy cows

May 15, 2012 11:50

On May 11, a furor erupted in Parliament over a black-and-white cartoon from 1949. Reproduced in a textbook for high-school juniors, the drawing depicts BR Ambedkar -- India's foremost Dalit leader and the chairman of the committee that drafted India's 1950 Constitution -- whip in hand and astride a snail labeled the Constitution. The first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, stands behind him, also wielding a whip.

Read Hartosh Singh Bal's opinion piece on the International Herald Tribune. Bal is the political editor of Open magazine.

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