Charlie Hebdo is going to come out next
Wednesday, the day it comes out every week - in the true spirit of the rightful
and needed defiance of the terror attack on its office in Paris yesterday that
killed its 10 staffers including its four cartoonists. And they are going to
print 1 million copies. In past, the average circulation figure of the magazine
has been hovering around 50,000 copies.
The killers are on the run. The manhunt is
on. Some over 80,000 French security personnel are mapping the possible leads. The
world is watching. And the world is speaking on it.
There are voices of defiance. There are
voices of shock. There are voices of support. There are voices of resolve. And
there are fanatic voices as well, lauding the attack, from terror groups like
ISIL or Taliban to even from politicians of vested interests.
And the defiant voices that started
emerging immediately, are getting stronger with time, with people from the
world over expressing their outage, flooding the social media platforms - with
media outfits paying tributes and keeping up the momentum.
And the anger, the shock, the pain and the
resolve - it reflects in the cartoons drawn to pay tribute and drawn to show
the defiance - with cartoonists coming out fiercely in denying the terrorists
what they were aiming for - instilling horror in the hearts of those who defy
the diktats of terrorists and the terror warlords.
The cartoons of defiance slap rightly in
the face of terrorists and fear-mongers with hard and direct attacks, something
that made for several Charlie Hebdo covers, as well as with subtle symbolisms,
the hallmark of political cartoons.
©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/
Here are some of the best 'cartoons of defiance' from the Internet pages:
(Images courtesy: different cartoonists, independent and working for news outfits)
CARTOONS OF DEFIANCE
