Shabari Choudhury
Undeniably India’s most famous cartoonist, R.K. Laxman’s talent lay in playing with irony, packing a punch in a deceptively light tone. We attempt to analyse 'what was it about his political cartoons that appealed to readers across six decades?’ (Photo courtesy: The Wire)
When the Sir JJ…
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Prof. E.V. Ramakrishnan
During the 1960s, Malayalam literature went through a major shift in sensibility. In reinventing itself from a new perspective, the Malayalam novel moved away from the ideological baggage of the earlier romantic-progressive phase. The realistic mode that had held sway over the narratives of…
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The article is taken is from The Indian Media, Illusion, Delusion and Reality. Essays in honour of Prem Bhatia (Edited by AshaRani Mathur and published by Rupa and Co on behalf of Prem Bhatia Memorial Trust). We gratefully acknowledge Prem Bhatia Memorial Trust for having given us permission to…
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This article is taken from The Indian Media, Illusion, Delusion and Reality: Essays in Honour of Prem Bhatia (Edited by Asha Rani Mathur and published by Rupa and Co on behalf of Prem Bhatia Memorial Trust). We gratefully acknowledge Prem Bhatia Memorial Trust for giving us permission to carry the…
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Shruti Ravi
Shruti Ravi: Could you share some of your memories about Shankar’s Weekly and the atmosphere at the time?
E.P. Unny: My first cartoon was printed by Shankar. I mean it was ‘distance cartoon’, I was studying in a college in Palakkad, Shankar’s Weekly was in Delhi. Shankar was open to…
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Shruti Ravi
A political cartoon, a potent combination of word and visual, is an editorial comment on the day's happenings. In India, cartooning, that began its career in British India, has diversified into other genres like social cartooning, comics, the graphic novel and literature.
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P. Sachidanandan, who writes under the pseudonym Anand, is one of the most influential writers and public intellectuals in Malayalam. He is representative of a generation of writers who burst on the Malayalam literary scene in the 1960s and 70s and changed the style and tone of fiction in the…
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