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	The textbook cartoon ban “Cartoons cultivate students' ability to relate the book to their own lives and develop critical thinking”. If there is a due process for preparing textbooks, there should also be due process for any deletion or withdrawal, YOGENDRA YADAV tells RADHIKA SACHDEV.

	A coincidence or a copied idea? Aamir Khan's Satyamev Jayate has striking similarities with IBN7's Zindagi Live in content, production, and presentation. The only difference between the two is the reach of the actor's show, writes ABHISHEK UPADHAYAY

	Journalists who happen to be women These essays are a brilliant mapping of the range of issues that have been tackled and publicised by women journalists over three decades. This behind-the-scenes documentation is a must read for all, says JAYA BHATTACHARJI in a book review.

	State and Sakshi part ll: A Constitutional lapse The Andhra Pradesh government has told all its departments, agencies, and corporations to withhold their advertisements to the Sakshi group. It is a clear case of abuse of power, writes MADABHUSHI SRIDHAR. Pix: Protests sparked in AP

	The State and Sakshi - Part I Can the CBI be used as subordinate tool to wreck vengeance against a hostile opposition party and its media? The selective use of power against the media of a political rival is misuse, says MADABHUSHI SRIDHAR. Pix: movies.rangu.com

	The Sakshi storm in Andhra Pradesh Accounts frozen, advertising suspended, the future of Sakshi is at risk as CBI investigations affect its multi-edition operations. Should Jagan's prosecution under the law for other alleged misdeeds visit his media operations, asks PADMAJA SHAW. Pix: Jaganmohan Reddy

	Did Aamir Khan go where angels fear to tread ? Missing the story of “India's missing girls”: Khan had to do this because our prolific media never took this issue head-on as a never-say-die campaign, says NUPUR BASU

	Content regulation does equal media control More regulation is not a way to address corruption, breach of ethical norms and the declining quality of journalism in India. This requires media reform, enforcing journalistic norms, and post-publication prosecution, says ANUP KUMAR. Pix: Justice Markandey Katju

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Marketing guns

'Attention authorised arms license holders!!!' screams an ad on page 7 of Hindustan Time's Delhi edition today. The ad, by the public sector Field Gun Factory, announced that the waiting period for the .32 mark III revolver has been reduced to 30 days. It went a step further, urging people with an arms license to book early. In a city where aggression and power go hand in hand, should a leading newspaper entertain such ads?

Another defamation notice

Rs 100 crore defamation notices are now par for the course. After Justice Sawant's suit against Arnab Goswami, and Times Now's legal notice for the same damages to The Hoot, we now have Shekhar Gupta and other authors of the Indian Express page one story on April 4 asking Vinod Mehta and Open magazine for Rs 100 crore in damages for defaming them. In an interview to Open magazine Mehta had described the Express story as "a mistake of Himalayan proportions" and asserted repeatedly that it was a planted story.

RIL and media

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