Newslaundry reached out to Vaishna Roy, editor of the magazine, and the illustrator, to understand how they view the outrage. Roy said the outrage against the cover image is nothing but a deflection from the UGC regulations that have been stayed. She also said the image was republished with permission from anti-caste portal The Ambedkarian Chronicle and was a “clever adaptation” of Munch’s iconic painting already in the public domain. “If the Nazis mocked the Jews, it was a majoritarian community that was in power and was mocking and demonising a minority community that it had subjugated. Here, it is...
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