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PostSubject: India's gulag: Innocent cartoonist jailed for corruption drawings   India's gulag: Innocent cartoonist jailed for corruption drawings Icon_minitimeTue Sep 11, 2012 9:34 pm
The world's largest democracy is being derided as ''intolerant India''. But those who run the country don't get the joke.

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A court has jailed the cartoonist Aseem Trivedi for anti-corruption cartoons it says are seditious, bringing him more attention than his drawings ever could.

Trivedi, an artist and anti-corruption campaigner in Kanpur, has been jailed under section 124A of India's penal code, the same law the British Raj used to imprison Mahatma Gandhi.

Trivedi has drawn the national Parliament as a giant toilet, suggested politicians' corruption was akin to drinking the blood of the people, and depicted the gang rape of ''mother India'' by corrupt politicians and bureaucrats.
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But it is his reinterpretation of India's Ashok Chakra national emblem, changing the three lions atop a plinth to three salivating wolves, and altering the motto from ''Only truth triumphs'' to ''Only corruption triumphs'', that has attracted most controversy.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/cartoonist-jailed-for-corruption-drawings-20120911-25qfi.html#ixzz26DOgpRDE
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