Tell us about your own favorite examples on our discussion ... foundations of the modern political cartoon by making it possible to circulate pictorial satire to a large public, a tradition ...

The crackdown on AIB was not an isolated incident but part of a long history of censorship targeting political satire. Before the meme came political cartoons, seen as weapons of dissent.

Another example was a cartoon on Manmohan Singh during the 2G ... nor was there a demand to shield the Prime Minister from satire. But social media, in its current shape, has certainly shrunken ...