Political cartoonist Satish Acharya’s Instagram account blocked in India
The action was taken under the IT Rules, which require social media platforms to remove content within three hours of receiving directions from the government.
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The Instagram account of political cartoonist Satish Acharya has been restricted in India after the Meta-owned platform received a legal request from the government.
“We reviewed it against our policies and conducted a legal and human rights assessment,” said Instagram. “After the review, we restricted access to the content in the location where it goes against local law.”
The action was taken under the 2021 Information Technology Rules, which require social media platforms to remove “unlawful content” within three hours of receiving directions from the government or a court.
Responding to the development on Monday, Acharya said he had never seen a government that is “so scared of cartoons”.
I have never seen a govt which is SO SCARED of cartoons! ???? https://t.co/gbETc5mpUk
— Satish Acharya (@satishacharya) September 28, 2026
He also shared a news report from 2018, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that cartoons do not hurt, but have a “healing power”. Cartoonists are “closer to god” as they can minutely observe characteristics of human beings, Modi had said at the time.
Acharya described the National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre as “block sarkar”.
Some of the recent works by Acharya were on The Indian Express investigation from September 23 that revealed that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had formally objected 14 times in 10 months to the poll panel’s...
