How factually hollow and vicious in its content this attack is, can be gauged if we bring together the different issues of Amar Chitra Katha.

In the case of ‘Dayananda’ (Volume 624), there is not ‘one panel allotted to showing Brahminical oppression of ‘lower’ castes but three (page 13), and the plight of the poor is shown in the next page in three panels.

At page 20, in which it has been alleged that the ‘assimilation of these castes into mainstream Hinduism’ gets four panels, we also find three panels depicting the Hindu orthodoxy’s violent opposition to Dayananda’s social reform measures.

Prior to Dayananda, ‘Baba Saheb Ambedkar’ (Volume 611) had been published by Amar Chitra Katha. Here, Dr Ambedkar has been shown as both the nation-builder as well as the champion of the rights of the oppressed. Amar Chitra Katha does not mince words when depicting Dr Ambedkar’s sharp attacks on Smriti-based Hinduism.

Similarly, the Amar Chitra Katha issue on Basaveshwara (1980) also depicts the tyranny of the upper classes on the Dalit communities in various panels. Once again, the title ‘Narayana Guru’ (Volume 792) has its first four pages with 21 panels depicting the notorious ‘lunatic asylum’ condition of Kerala under the stagnant casteist oppression.

Even more bizarre and blatant falsehoods are stated by leftist academics. These are then re-quoted without verification – just to portray Amar Chitra Katha negatively. The same scholar states: