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The Battle for Debate

Recently, the Indian government’s motives to censor have seemed political more than religious. India’s prickly leaders are proving increasingly prone to take offence. In the last year alone, politicians and religious leaders have sought to silence everyone from Salman Rushdie to the Indian cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, who was detained in Mumbai’s notoriously brutal Arthur Road prison for two days in September 2012, accused of sedition. He was released on bail on 12 September. The charges against this once little-known artist relate to two cartoons. In one, Trivedi recasts India’s national emblem, replacing the customary lions with wolves, to make a statement about the government’s conduct: the caption underneath reads ‘Long live corruption’. Another cartoon depicts Indian parliament as a giant toilet bowl. Neither cartoon was likely to cause a religious riot. But both are highly embarrassing to a government mired in political difficulty and scandal. Corruption is likely to be the key issue at the next election, posing a serious threat to India’s economic resurgence. In September 2012, the fallout from The Innocence of Muslims demonstrated how moderate voices can quickly be drowned out by fanaticism and