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If Angst for Rachitas Strichmännchen – DW – 11.10.2024

If Angst for Rachitas Strichmännchen – DW – 11.10.2024

“It started as a hobby, a friend of mine to take with me,” says Rachita Taneja. Before you can watch a comic strip on Facebook years later. The human rights activist, the damals schon für a community organization, war chronically online.

“Mir fiel es schwer, den Nachrichten zu entkommen”, see the DW at the Menschenrechte Filmfestival in Berlin. The Indian caricaturist presents “Drawing a Line”, a documentary film about his work.

When the war started, Narendra Modi was consulted by the Prime Minister. Taneja hates the Gefühl, if you are on the Versuche Modis Regierung, the Meinungsfreiheit one-sided, you must respond immediately.

Die Hauptrolle in ihren Comics takes place in Strichmännchen. The Zeichnungen comment on all social, political and cultural themes: from #MeToo and patriarchy to generosity and the discrimination of minorities.

The cartoons can be found in the web series “Sanitary Panels” – a wortspiel from “sanitary towels” (Damenbinden) and “comic panels” (Comic-Panels). Der Titel reflects more broadly in a feminist background.

After the first Comic with “Sanitary Panels” more than 133,000 followers on Instagram and quickly 50,000 on

Hass fell on the Internet

If the whole history is known, the political caricaturist of our country is extremely interested online, with his weathering and todesdrohungen. These “Kritzeleien” can be brought to the right extent.

Der Oberste Gerichtshof hat 2020 is een Verfahren die eingeleitet. Since the “Missachtung des Gerichts” has begun, the institution has been criticized.

When autumn started, it became noticeable in social media: “I responded on Twitter, it is a foutahren that more läuft, and how gentle a panic attack is,” he said.

From others Caricaturists erhält Taneja fell Unterstützung. That Tatsache, which is one of the most important institutions that carried out his project, is in its surreal: “Who can have the highest goal in the great democracy of the world with my best ideas?”, Fragment in the documentation.

Rachita Taneja attended a Plakat des Human Rights Film Festivals in Berlin
That Indian Caricaturist Rachita Taneja at the Human Rights Film Festival in BerlinImage: Elizabeth Grenier/DW

If your Meinungsfreiheit bedroht

“Since Narendra Modi 2014, if the Prime Minister is happy, he will be in an Indian country in an independent state”, states the Human Rights Organization “Reporter ohne Grenzen” fest. See your application in the 2024 press freedom rankingson Platz 159 of 180 Ländern eingestuft.

The organization is growing in the areas of fashion and family, influencing the middle class of the countries. These serve as Sprachrohr der Regierung. Modus Partei, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has been criticized while supporting the agenda of Hindu extremists, and in a climate of punitive terror, it is seen as Muslim.

Coordinierte Kampagnen, die zur Rache und Regierungskritikern aufrufen, were organized by the Hindunationalist Rights: “Journalists, who are critical of the Regierung äußern, since regular Online-Belästigungen, Einschüchterungen, Drohungen and physisch Angriffen as well as criminal Verfolgungen and willkürlichen Verhaftungen ausgesetzt ” ßt es im aktuellen Message from “Reporter ohne Grenzen”.

Zensur critics Inhalte

Bücher stack themselves into a Tisch. It was a Mann and a schreibt that came up
Inspiration from other Büchern: Eindrücke vom Buchmarkt in Neu DelhiImage: Subrata Goswami/DW

A BBC documentary film from the year 2023, the role of Narendra Modi’s direction in the Verbreitung of Hass becomes Muslim in the event that he becomes nervous in the country. Management of the documentation content and search for Twitter and YouTube, links and videos are possible.

Solche Zensurversuche je bewirken je bewirken je gegenteil, if you notice the inhalation of the light – a phenomenon, which can be regarded as “Streisand-Effekt”, after the American singer Barbra Streisand, who focused on the present day, that is an image of your heart an obscure website herumgeisterte.

The power of the image is the first right of a virus. Watch the webcomic “Sanitary panels” with profit from the operation. Unmittelbar nach Bekanntgabe des Urteils des Oberste Gerichtshofs In case Rachita Taneja stated a started Follower-Zahlen fest.

With the online inhalation of the control of your purchases, which the Regierung Modi 2024 a Entwurf zum Rundfunkgesetz ausgearbeitet, all Provider social media is defined as “digital night time transmitter”. It is worth using the right word, if you take the word, it is a matter of stopping. The Gesetzesentwurf is a newcomer to Redefreiheit criticism.

If Kulturszene in Aufbruch

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Since the BJP stayed with the Wahlen in June, Prime Minister Modi is now working with his coalition partner. Once the problem is resolved, the installation may no longer work.

There are many political commentators, journalists, artists, activists and comedians – who can help Kunal Kamra, one of the popular stand-up comedians, to get a complaint before the higher court.

“I’m glad you don’t, that’s how you live,” says Rachita Taneja in ‘Drawing a Line’. “If you are well-balanced and healthy, you can sit and enjoy the climate in your own home, it is not a waste of time, without worry. It is easy.”

Trotz der Drohungen und der Zensur hat Taneja vor, in ihrem Heimatland zu bleiben. “I liebe Als zu sehr”, said. If you think it is unfair, because the Sicherheitsgründen are one of the most important ideas about their muses – and that they end up in a privileged position in the Indische Gesellschaft, it is true that as Hindus and Angehörige they were born into a high caste.

If you want you to take a trip and travel in the world of the country. “I think that this privilege will be a thing of the past.

Rachita Taneja is sitting on the couch and looking at an IPad
Rachita Taneja sits down on an I-Pad. Film still from Documentation “Drawing a line”Image: Clin d’Oeil Films

Hanging up the “sanitary panels” by part of Rachita Taneja’s life has become: “I don’t have any fear, but I don’t have any problems with it. here it can be said that the Comics Machine is a great way to think about a theme and appear in a Comic.”

“Drawing a Line” was never published, by Rachita Taneja and his documentary filmmaker, who goes by the pseudonym Pana Sama. An abstract recording at the Berlin Human Rights Film Festival will take place on October 12.

Adaptation to English by Theresa Szorek.