{"id":31620,"date":"2012-01-04T11:57:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T11:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=31620"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:19:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:19:07","slug":"india-cartoons-against-corruption-aseem-trivedi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=31620","title":{"rendered":"India: Anti-corruption cartoon website suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Facebook - Cartoons Against Corruption\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cartoonsagainstcorruption\" target=\"_blank\">Cartoons Against Corruption<\/a>, the website of\u00a0Indian cartoonist Aseem Trivedi has been <a title=\"WSJ India Real Time Report - Cartoonist Faces Ban on Right to Poke Fun \" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/indiarealtime\/2012\/01\/04\/cartoonist-faces-ban-on-right-to-poke-fun\/\" target=\"_blank\">suspended<\/a>\u00a0 by its internet host after complaints that it illegally showcased content mocking India&#8217;s constitution. The complaint\u00a0by a Mumbai-based lawyer described the cartoons as\u00a0\u201cdefamatory and derogatory&#8221;. One of the disputed works replaced the lions on India&#8217;s national emblem with wolves and changed the emblem&#8217;s inscription from \u201cBhrashtamev Jayate\u201d [Long Live Corruption] to \u201cSatyamev Jayate\u201d [Long Live Truth]. Trivedi told the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s <a title=\"WSJ - India Real Time\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/indiarealtime\/\" target=\"_blank\">India Real Time<\/a>\u00a0his intention was to \u201cdepict the ailing truth of the nation and send across a strong message to the masses.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cartoons Against Corruption, the website of\u00a0Indian cartoonist Aseem Trivedi has been suspended\u00a0 by its internet host after complaints that it illegally showcased content mocking India&#8217;s constitution. The complaint\u00a0by a Mumbai-based lawyer described the cartoons as\u00a0\u201cdefamatory and derogatory&#8221;. One of the disputed works replaced the lions on India&#8217;s national emblem with wolves and changed the emblem&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4061,4883,584,585],"tags":[4142,4143,4141,103,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31620"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31641,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31620\/revisions\/31641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}