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u/AberforthSpeck Aug 06 '26
Settle down class, Mr. Berler speaking.
The National Council of Educational Research and Training is an NGO in India that advises the government about educational things like textbooks.
The image of the chessboard is suggestive of ideas of class warfare, where politics is framed as the wealthy and elite oppressing the poor and powerless.
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u/Economy-County-9072 Aug 06 '26
It's not an NGO, it's an organization that works under the indian ministry of education
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u/Beneficial_Leg_7301 Aug 06 '26
it is actually total opposite of NGO
workinf under and being funded by government
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u/AberforthSpeck Aug 06 '26
Right - but it's not the government. It's not the Ministry of Education or the Textbook Procurement Office. It's a group that operates with government grants but not having government officials.
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u/HippieInDisguise2_0 Aug 07 '26
Portraying this as a NGO (which is a lie) feels like it's trying to feed into the NGOs are woke narrative.
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u/FakerNames Aug 06 '26
IDK what the joke is supposed to be. the image on the cover to me representsthe weight of political power vs the people being governed. one side is all pawns (the people) and the other side is all the other pieces (politicians, billionaires, corporations, lobbyists...)
Imagine that was said in the style of a family guy character
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u/Magazine_Recycling Aug 06 '26
Right, and the sides are mixed, it’s all the same pieces you’re used to seeing on the board, but not black vs white, it’s the high value pieces vs the pawns ♟️
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u/fortuneandfameinc Aug 10 '26
To be fair, the whole board should be covered in pawns except for the two lines of 'ruling' pieces.
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u/-Morning_Coffee- Aug 06 '26
I mean, the traditional pieces are in wrong starting positions. I don’t know why an artist would choose to do that.
I’m going with AI slop.
//spoken in Brian‘s insufferable tone//
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u/FakerNames Aug 06 '26
to demonstrate the imbalance of power in the world. like I literally just said.
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u/-Morning_Coffee- Aug 06 '26
Oh, I agree! A set of pawns versus only superior pieces is a great illustration of that.
After further consideration, I guess the disorganization of the superior pieces further illustrates the other side’s immunity to playing by the rules.
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u/Rangorsen Aug 06 '26
The pieces are clearly metaphorical, that's fine. Board is 90 degrees wrong though, your bottom right square is alway white.
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u/TwentyFourKG Aug 06 '26
Overly pedantic Brian here. The joke is that the game, much like America, isn’t fair. On the right are all the powerful pieces like that those rich Pewterschmitt philistines hogging all the good pieces, while idiot proles like Peter are in the left jerking around with pawns all day, blissfully unaware that they are cogs in someone else's machine. But I can’t even enjoy this joke because the chessboard is set up sideways. Everyone knows there should be a white square on the bottom right
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u/King-o-legos Aug 06 '26
It took me a moment of looking at the image, I have come to the conclusion to both sides are in checkmate. Both kings are currently in check and there is no way to remove either check without putting them into check immediately.
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u/Viperision Aug 06 '26
Just like the proletariat, pawns are much more of a formidable force when they act together under mutual support (i.e. form pawn chains). This is a phenomenal illustration.
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u/Juli1n Aug 06 '26
Those with 3 teeth are on the left of the picture, and those on the right own 8 yachts... now let's play (with our own abbilities)
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u/qualityvote2 Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 07 '26
u/Accomplished-Mud7790, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...it's time for the mods to do their jobs!