Before the current crackdown on Vikatan by BJP-led Centre, past AIADMK & DMK-led state govts have also taken it to court for defaming their leaders & parties over cartoons, articles.

Chennai: Madras high court has directed Union govt to unblock the Tamil journal Ananda Vikatan website, which had been ...

We were given until Tuesday (February 18) to respond, but we requested a two-day extension ... over a satirical cartoon published on the magazine’s front cover. The Tamil Nadu Legislative ...

Within a day of the Tamil Nadu BJP petitioning L Murugan ... popular magazine ‘Vikatan’ for what it called an offensive cartoon against Prime Minister Narendra Modi on its cover, the magazine ...

Tamil News website Vikatan ... for explanation” on February 15, and a day later the MIB sent them an email seeking clarification regarding the cartoon they had published.

In a major setback to the BJP, the Madras High Court Thursday March 06, 2025 asked the Union Government in New Delhi to lift ...

Chennai: A popular Tamil magazine group, Vikatan, had courted trouble after it published a digital cartoon depicting Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his hands and legs chained and seated in the ...

The storm broke after the BJP's Tamil Nadu chief, K Annamalai, flagged the cartoon in complaints to the Press Council of India and junior Information and Broadcasting Minister L Murugan.

The cartoon featured in the magazine ... political and media circles for prominent Tamil magazine conglomerate, Vikatan, on Sunday, a day after the Centre allegedly blocked its website in response ...

The cartoon was apparently referring to Modi not taking up the issue of US authorities handcuffing illegal immigrants who were sent back to India during his meeting with trump.