The Greatest Cartoon Show on Earth

I wonder how many have seen the cartoon Shankar had drawn some sixty years back. It was reproduced in Hindu news paper. There one can see Ambedkar sitting on a snail with constitution written on it's shell. Ambedkar sits on the snail with a whip. The whip is held as if he has no intention of using it on the snail. Behind Ambedkar and his carrier the snail Nehru is standing bent forward with the whip raised and it looks very much he is aiming the whip at the snail. Nehru is not aiming at Ambedkar. He wants the constitution or rather the committee writing the constitution to go faster. Probably he is not satisfied about the speed with which the committee is preparing the constitution and thinks that Ambedkar is not urging the people to finish it. In no way it is derogatory to Ambedkar. In fact it shows Nehru's impatience only. Shankar's weekly was one the foremost cartoon weekly of that time. It was our equivalent of Punch of England. Shankar Pillai was a close friend of Nehru and would he would have enjoyed the cartoon like anyone else. To bring it up at this time shows utter ignorance of the present day MPs and others who went on vandalizing the offices of NCERT officials. This came in NCERT text book in 2006 and nobody has objected. Why all of a sudden now. And to start cleansing of all text books by these intolerant fanatics is most foolish. If scholars have to have their books vetted by these morons why they should bother to write at all. Let these morons write as well. What is the difference between fanatical Taliban and these people? This is an imaginary insult to the Scheduled Caste icon Ambedkar. Now if censoring starts every religionists also will chip in. Some passage they will say affects Hindu sentiments. Another will say something else affects Muslim sentiments, or Sikh sentiments or Christian sentiments. There will be no end to this. We are celebrating the 60th anniversary of our Parliament with this 'Greatest Cartoon Show of Earth'. Indian news in world media will be put along with humour by news papers and other media of the world. We are the laughing stock of the whole outside world.