On July 15, 2017, Tanmay Bhat, the co-founder of the comedy collective All India Bakchod (AIB) was charged with defamation (IPC 500). This was in response to a tweet posted by AIB that featured an ...

As the world wakes up to news that Republican Donald Trump will become the 45th president of the United States, political cartoonists have already been hard at work painting a satirical image of what ...

Ten years ago, on January 7, 2015, two gunmen stormed the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine, and killed 12 people. Brothers Chérif and Saïd Kouachi, who claimed allegiance to ...

Cartoonists, writers, lawyers and civil society members have strongly condemned the case filed against satirical Facebook ...

It was reported this week that Job Amupanda was considering laying a formal complaint with the media ombudsman over a political cartoon that portrayed him as "sleeping". The Affirmative Repositioning ...

Political satire has been a longstanding theme in media. Recently, I read an LA Times article quoting a statement about political satire and free speech made in 2020 by Brendan Carr, the current ...

Beautiful women, smoking guns and gloomy saloons: all of this can be found in the witty western parody "Gus" by Christophe Blain. The title hero, or rather anti-hero, of the stories is the brash mail ...

Political cartoons are meant to poke fun at the missteps of politicians while highlighting the news of the day. But according to cartoonist Michael de Adder, how Canadians ingest their political ...

Cartoonists and writers today protested the case filed against different satire platforms including earki, a political satire ...

Let’s call a spade a spade. Comedy is not always about good fun and cracking harmless jokes. Sometimes, it takes a well-weaved satire to pack a punch that even political commentators wouldn’t have ...

There is a changing of the guard at The New Yorker. Cartoon editor Robert Mankoff, who has sifted through about 1,500 submitted cartoons a week for 20 years, is stepping down. His successor is a ...